Levi, Yaakov

Yaakov, son of Simcha and David, Levi was born on the 30th of Nissan, May 10, 1929 in the city of Byel, Yugoslavia. He immigrated to Israel in 1934, and was educated by the labor movement. He attended an educational school for the workers’ children in Haifa and later became a member. Because of the difficult financial situation of the family, Yaakov was forced to stop his studies in the seventh grade and go to work. He was an assistant to the guard at the gate of the Shemen factory. Since he wanted to learn a profession, to be a sailor in the Hebrew Navy, during leisure hours, he would descend to the port or to the Hapoel club and acquire maritime training. With the wave of arrests of the “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1946), Yaakov arrived at the detention camps in Rafah and Latrun, and further strengthened his connection with the fighting camp. In the framework of one of the Palmach battalions, he trained in a rat farm . On the 20th of Adar 2, March 31, 1948, a convoy of cars left for Jerusalem and encountered an enemy ambush. In the platoons that came out of Hulda to the convoy’s aid was Yaakov, and in the battle that broke out there he fell and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Hulda.