Margalit, Yosef (Yossi)

Yosef, son of Miriam (from the home of Rudin of Hadera) and Meir (one of the volunteers of the Jewish Legion from America in the First World War) Margalit, was born in Jerusalem on June 3, 1924. In the harsh conditions of the winter of 1948, he returned to active service in the Palmach in Jerusalem, accompanied by convoys and other missions. To his anxious mother he would say, “I am an only child, but to the homeland – one of the tens.” Yosef was killed in an explosion at the Jewish Agency building on March 11, 1948. He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the 5th of Elul 5711 (6.9.1951), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.