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Levi, Yehezkel

Levi, Yehezkel


Son of-Shoshana and Shmuel was born on May 3, 1925 in Tiberias, where he studied at the “Alliance” school in Jaffa, belonged to Hanoar Haoved and worked in the glass industry at the Phenicia factory in Haifa. He took an active role in literature, art, sports, and public affairs, and at the outbreak of the War of Independence after the United Nations General Assembly decided to partition the country, he immediately joined the ranks of the defenders and participated in many battles To repel the Arab attacks on the Jewish settlements. On December 31, 1948, he boarded a mine in Tel al-Qadi in the Upper Galilee and was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and daughter at the age of one.

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