Levi, Jacques

During World War I, Jacques volunteered in London, where he lived, for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion, he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in front of Jericho and in the battle for the conquest of a-Salt in Transjordan. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey from A-Salt to Jerusalem. Shortly thereafter, on 18 October 1918, Jacques fell in the line of duty and was brought to rest at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus. His name was immortalized in the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail and in the “Yizkor” book of the Jabotinsky Institute