Levi, David

He was born in 1919. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, and in late April 1943 he sailed with about 300 soldiers from his unit and with other units on the deck of the ship “Aryanpura”. On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships headed by the “Aryanpura.” The ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes began to sink into the depths. Along with the sinking ship, a hundred and forty soldiers from Unit 462 also drowned. David was among them. His name was immortalized in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” In the book “The Volunteer Book” and in the book “Yizkor” published by the Jabotinsky Institute. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool with the names of the hundred and forty people who are killed. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.