Lubnitzky, Jacob

Son of Frieda and Mordechai. He was born in 1924 in Tel Aviv. The sea, on the edge of Tel Aviv, was an attraction for the lively boy. He had a lot to swim and sail on in boating and sailboats. He became fond of the fishermen and helped them deal with boats and fishing nets, and often went with them to the sea when they went fishing. Yaakov was accepted to the marine association “Zevulun”. Together with his friends, he organized boats in the Yarkon River, engaged in marine sports and learned the principles of good sailing. All this activity did not bother him in his regular studies. When Yaakov learned that on the ship “Har Zion” belonging to the company “Lloyd Land Israel Ltd.”, vacated the place of a deck boy turned to the engineer A. Tovim, who was the owners of the company and patrons of the marine association “Zevulun” to allow him to board the ship. When World War II broke out, Har Zion joined the British merchant fleet and sailed between the British ports and the Mediterranean ports and in 1940 joined the effort to break through the naval blockade called the German submarines On the United Kingdom and through convoys on the Atlantic Ocean on August 31, 1940, when the ship “Mount Zion” was Heath On the way from Britain to the United States, was hit by a German submarine and plunged into the depths, along with 33 seamen, 17 of them from the Land of Israel and Yaakov among them, left parents and brother on board the ship “Mount Zion” and its sinking circumstances was published in the book ” “The memorial service for missing persons was written in the World Zionist Organization magazine” Haolam. “An investigation conducted in 2017 found that the date of his death was 31.8.1940, on the 17th of Av, 1948. Place of commemoration cTOWERCHILLc, London, UK. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown