Levi, Avraham

Avraham, son of Stella and Moshe Levi, was born in 1926 in Bulgaria. In 1946 he immigrated with his family to Israel on a ship called Transylvania. They settled in Haifa. Upon immigrating to Israel he joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. From the day he arrived in Israel, he was a member of the Haganah. During the period of arrests during the struggle against the British, he was arrested together with members of Kibbutz Na’an; his detention lasted two months in the Latrun camp. From there he was transferred to the Rafah camp and a month later was released and returned to the kibbutz. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he immediately joined the ranks of the Haganah, served in the Kiryati Brigade and filled guard posts in Haifa’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood. Avraham was sent to Safed and participated in the battles for its conquest. After a short vacation he returned to his unit and took part in the battles for Malkiya. Avraham participated in Operation Brosh to eliminate the Syrian bridgehead in the Mishmar Hayarden area. On the 3rd of Tammuz, 5708 (July 10, 1948), he left with his unit for action near Mishmar Hayarden. The unit successfully carrying out its mission and caused casualties to the enemy, but Avraham was hit in the head and fell. His burial place was unknown. A memorial plaque was placed in his memory in the military cemetery on Har Herzl in Jerusalem. In June 2005, as part of the investigation of the Missing Persons Unit in the IDF, Avraham was buried in a mass grave with David Avigdor and Avraham Pollak in the military cemetery at Rosh Pina, in a grave that is associated with the fallen of Hill 243.