Lavie, Jacob (“Jacques”)

Son of Eliyahu and Medula. Born on April 8, 1932 in Kernaika, Libya, he studied in a Hebrew religious school until the fourth grade, and as an English citizen he was transferred with his parents to Tripoli and from there to Italy at the height of the Second World War. His parents went to a concentration camp in Italy and later in Germany, where he continued to study and paid for his Torah in his meager war.In 1946 he returned to Benghazi, helped his parents with their livelihood and continued his studies. The residents of Aliyah – especially the younger ones – gathered together fanatical and patriotic lovers and together they discussed and planned its owners. He joined the Kibbutz Ein Gev, where he worked devotedly and received military training, and then left the farm and was drafted into the IDF in January 1951. He volunteered for a job in a profession in the Israel Air Force Bo saw his future. He fell in a battle at the Jordan River near the Sea of ​​Galilee on the 6th of Nissan, 5705 (1951) and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.