Mazuyof, Aaron

Son of Sarah and Aziz. A descendant of the Kabbalists. He was born in Jerusalem on November 16, 1926. His parents made their way to Eretz Israel with many dangers and received love for their poverty, and was educated at the “Levanim” elementary school in Jerusalem and then worked in various jobs to help his family. Did not persist in any of them because of his activity in the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), and he participated in many of the organization’s activities and proved courage and self-sacrifice in all of them. “On the afternoon of Friday, “A young man carrying a mattress approached a barbed wire that bypassed the fortified area (Zone B) on Ibn Gvirol Street in Jerusalem. The young man leaned the mattress against the fence, took out a Stan machine and opened fire on the surrounding army patrols. The guard returned fire with lethal fire, killing the subject of the mattress. . . The dead man was identified as Aharon Mazyuf, “the story of the courage of the young fighter and his willingness to sacrifice his life without hesitation for the cause, and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The attack and the fall of Aharon was published in the Ha’aretz newspaper on August 13, 1947. Aharon Mazioff is Eliahu, the hero of the story “Sons to the Place” by Yitzhak Shenberg (Shenhar), printed in “Lech HaAretz”, 1951. After the Six-Day War, it became clear to the family that the Jordanians paved the road to Jericho on the grave. To this end, tombstones were erected in his memory on the Mount of Olives, at the presumed burial place, and in the section of the missing on Mount Herzl.