Levi, Uriel (Uri)

Ben Rivka and Shmuel Was born on 20 July 1927 in Jerusalem, where he studied and received his education, was the youngest of the family’s favorite children, and as a youth joined the youth movement “The Young Maccabee.” Uriel graduated from the ” He was an active member of the “Lohamei Herut Yisrael” organization and in 1946 he moved to the Haganah, where he joined the Jewish settlement police and was a guard in the settlements of the Judean Hills (Neve Yaakov, Hartuv, Nahalat Yitzhak, Kiryat Anavim and Gush Etzion.) With the outbreak of the War of Independence, in which Uriel and his two brothers took part, he participated in escorting convoys, and served as a sabotage officer and instructor in the course Uriel participated in most of the activities in Jerusalem and on the 17th of Av, 5708 (17.8.1948) he took part in an operation to capture the branch of “Armon Hanatziv” from which the enemy harassed our forces and the enemy was attacked with great force. His body was collected after 15 days by the Red Cross and was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On August 30, 1950, he was transferred to the eternal rest of the cemetery Military operation at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.