Medina, Shlomo

Shlomo, son of Shoshana and Yosef Medina was born on the 3rd of Sivan, May 22, 1928 in Sanaa, Yemen. He was about six years old when his father died and a year later, at the age of seven, he was forced to work in a flour mill to feed himself. His mother smuggled her children across the border and brought them to Israel in 1942. Upon his arrival he was educated for two years in “Youth Aliyah” in Shfeya. At the outbreak of the War of Independence Shlomo joined the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in Operation Chametz to encircle Jaffa and then moved on to the Negev. He fell on 7 Cheshvan (9.11.48) in a skirmish around the “Faluja Pocket”. He Shlomo was laid to rest in the Varburg military cemetery. He left behind his wife, Yaffa, and a son, Yosef.