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Levi, Daniel

Levi, Daniel


Son of Ventura and Isaac was born on January 6, 1927, in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he spent his childhood in the city of Matnasas, where he completed his elementary studies, and after his family moved to Havana, After receiving his degree, he worked for a while at Calisto Gesia Hospital in Havana, where he was an outstanding athlete and active in the Maccabi Association and the Zionist movement in the city, and in 1947 he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) Of the eighteen members of the Etzel group who immigrated to Eretz Israel in the Altalena, the organization’s arms ship. On June 22, 1948, he was among the fallen Irgun fighters who were killed and killed on board the ship from the fire that was fired at them from the Tel Aviv coast and brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.

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