Levkovitz, Yosef (Joe)

Son of Bella and Jacob. Born in 1912 in Lodz, Poland, he moved to Berlin where he studied at an elementary and high school, and after the Nazi rise to power in 1933 he fled to France and from there immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934. In Israel he worked as a driver. He later moved to Haifa to work in the management of the Kasino in Bat Galim, which he owned, and after a while his parents left the country and emigrated to the United States, but Yosef remained in Israel and returned to Tel Aviv where he worked as a taxi driver at the Aviv taxi company, and in his spare time he worked in various sports – tennis, table tennis and soccer – and was considered an excellent swimmer. He died on the battlefield on 26 Av, 27.8.1943 and was 31. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Tripoli. He left his parents, brother and sister.