Margalit, Yosef

Was born on October 26, 1917 in the city of Bialystok, Poland, where he graduated from the Hebrew Gymnasium “Tarbut”, and at the beginning of 1939 he was enrolled as a full-time student in the Humanities Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem In the same period, the Second World War broke out, and with the German and Russian invasion of Poland, he was forced to flee to the city of Vilnius (then to the Lithuanians) and from there he traveled extensively through the Soviet Union and Turkey until he arrived in Palestine in 1941. During World War II He worked as a civilian driver in the British army and helped the Haganah forces in purchasing weapons and transferring them to secret sites. He was an active member of the Haganah almost from the day of his arrival in Israel, and with the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country and the outbreak of the War of Independence following it, He was among the first to report to the ranks of the defenders and was appointed to the position of commander in Tiberias, and the security forces saw his role as deputy director of the hospital as very important and did not recruit him for service, but he volunteered occasionally for combat operations around Tiberias. (June 6, 1948) joined the unit that went into battle in Lubia – but this operation did not return. He died on the 9th of Sivan 5708 (June 9, 1948.) A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.