Micholsky, Yaakov

Son of Dora and Yosef. Born in 1914 in Dzia, Transylvania, Romania, his father immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933. The family settled in Kfar Saba and Yaakov joined the Betar labor company in the village and later on to the ranks of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. He married a wife and moved to Tiberias, where he earned a living as a metalworker. With the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936 he abandoned his art and was one of the first recruits to serve as a guard and was not deterred by danger and protected the lives and property of Jews in the places he served in. He spent six months in Afikim and later in Efron quarry on the shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee, On 26 Tamuz, July 25, 1938, at the head of a small group of workers, a gang of Arab rioters opened fire on them from an ambush on the slopes of Mount Bronica to the right of the road between Tiberias and the hot springs of Tiberias. He left a wife and parents, and his life and heroism are published in “Their Memory for All”, a book of remembrance for the heroes of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. He was buried in the cemetery in Tiberias.