Masuri, Yitzhak (Yitzchka)
Son of Sarah and Joseph, was born on July 7, 1930 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Where he began to study at the Alliance School and acquired knowledge in the Amharic, Arabic and Italian languages. In 1940 he immigrated to Israel with some of the family members. Yitzhak completed his studies in Tel Aviv and became a strong and cheerful young man and was willing to release his Jewish homeland even at the cost of his life. When he was 14 years old, he went to the kibbutz, but found no place there. After a year and a half, he returned to the city and began working as a politician and paid for his widowed mother. At the same time, in 1945, he joined the Irgun underground and during the time of the great curfew in Tel Aviv he was apprehended and sent to detention in the Rafah camp, where his mother was released after a few months’ imprisonment on bail of 200 pounds and provided that he remain in house arrest for a year. Against the British and against the Arabs, and participated in the conquest of northern Jaffa and in the battles of Ramla and Rosh Ha’ayin. He served in one of the Irgun units that fought in the Givati Brigade On June 2-3, 1948, during the “Philistine” operation, the Givati forces attacked the Egyptian forces near the Ashdod Bridge (the “Ad Halom” Bridge). The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the attack and halted their advance northward, which fell on 26 Iyyar 5708 (June 4, 1948) and was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.