Lebanon, Yaakov-Shevach

Son of Yaffa and Eliahu-Yehoshua, was born on 18.3.1929) in Safed and spent his youth in the settlement of Sejera in the Lower Galilee, where he absorbed the atmosphere of glory and heroism of the guards tradition. In the period of the struggle against British rule he was arrested several times and was arrested in Latrun, where he aspired to study film and received a license to travel to America for a course of study, but with the outbreak of war – Independence Following the UN General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of Palestine into two states, he relinquished his ambition and steadfastness Hand service. Yaakov-Shevach took part in the defense of Jerusalem and, after the British left, served in the block of the Anglo-Palestine Building, where he was among the last burglars in the Old City and defended its Jews until May 26, 1948, two days before the surrender of the Old City. His brother Moshe-Yosef, who was younger than him, also fell in the War of Independence, and in memory of the years his bereaved father published a memorial book in 1949: “bushes like cedar trees.” His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.