Mishorsky, Dr. Boris

Son of-Nechama and Eliahu was born in Warsaw, capital of Poland, in the home of his father, who grew up in a Jewish-cultural atmosphere and in the spirit of the Zionist tradition. In 1938 he completed his studies at the university’s medical faculty in Warsaw, where he served in the Department of Cytology and Embryology during his four years of study at the university, and in addition to Polish and Hebrew, French and English After the city surrendered to the Nazis, he succeeded in escaping with his parents on his way to Israel, and in April 1940 he arrived in Jerusalem and immediately upon his arrival was awarded a research prize to the Department of Experimental Pathology (under the direction of D. And in the spring of 1941 he joined the British army and served as a doctor in Israel, Egypt, Kenya and Ethiopia during the war, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and during the period In particular, he held very senior positions. When he returned to Israel in 1946, he devoted himself entirely to scientific work, which he desired all the time. In 1947 he was appointed assistant to the Department of Experimental Pathology on Mount Scopus and with great devotion he did his work in the Cancer Research Laboratory. The scientific work he left behind attests to his great talents as a creative researcher who knew no rest in his soul, which seeks to reveal secrets and disappear. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount the convoys that were secured The British army sent a convoy to Mount Scopus on the morning of April 13, 1948, after the British promised that the road was open and safe, and the convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs. , But two buses, an ambulance and an escort vehicle were ambushed, and for many hours the convoy members fought and tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles. Moderation City and Mount Scopus and armored vehicles sent to the scene were unable to assist the convoy. British troops who were there did not intervene and did nothing to help, despite them. Afternoons Arabs managed to set fire to two buses full of passengers. Only late in the evening the British intervened and rescued the survivors from the trapped vehicles. Dr. Mishorsky was not among them, he was buried in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem and was later transferred to the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.