Micka, Raphael (Mike)

Son of Sarah and Mordechai, the fourth generation in Israel, was born on the 6th of Av, 5723 (6.8.1923) in Jerusalem. Raphael studied at Tachkemoni Elementary School and continued his high school studies in an external school. During World War II, he was among the first volunteers to join the British army and was stationed in the Royal Air Force, and later, when the Jewish Brigade was established in the ranks of the British army, When the news reached him about the actions of the Irgun against British rule in Eretz Israel and the British actions to prevent illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, he decided to help the Irgun people in their activities, and used his vacations to obtain explosives and weapons. His life when he dismantled mines and removed the explosives from them.In April 1945, Rafa was arrested After he served for almost five years in the British army, Rafael was apprehended in December 1945 for the deportation of the Irgun and Lehi members from Eretz Israel and was flown to detention camps in Eritrea and Kenya, But the British authorities refused to release him and even opposed his transfer to the operation in Israel.33 Three and a half years of detention, exile and suffering were passed on to Raphael and only after the liquidation of the detention camps did he return with his friends to Eretz Israel.In the hospital to which he was admitted, Save his life. On the 19th of Av 5708 (August 24, 1948), after days and nights of terrible suffering, he died of his illness. Raphael was laid to rest at the cemetery in Givat Ram in Jerusalem, where he was accompanied by a guard of honor from the Irgun in Jerusalem, who left his parents and was later laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. National Military.