Mishali, Mas’ud

Son of Farcha and Yitzhak. Born in 1889 in the Old City of Jerusalem, his father was a rabbi of the Mughrabi community in Jerusalem and Massoud studied in the “cheder.” In World War I, when he was eighteen, he enlisted in the Jewish Legion. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the British Expeditionary Force, serving in the Western Desert at Marsa Matruch, Solom and Tobruk, and in March 1941 he was sent to Greece with the British Expeditionary Force to stop the German invasion of the country. This is where the German offensive came and in June 1941 Masoud fell in captivity at the border between Germany and Poland. He fell ill on 1 Adar ii (03/08/1943) and died on the operating table. He was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Krakow, Poland. He left a wife, three sons and a daughter. His name was immortalized in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute, in “The Book of Volunteerism” and in “The Book of the Year of the Journalists”, 1946.