Mizrachi, Yaakov

Son of Shoshana and Mordechai was born on July 12, 1927, in Jerusalem. He was a member of Hanoar Haoved. When he was 16 years old he enlisted in the British army and served in various units until the Jewish Brigade was established and when the time came he was transferred to it. With the Brigade, it passed through the countries of Western Europe. For about five and a half years he was in uniform. When the brigade was disbanded, he was discharged from the British army and, upon returning home, worked first as a driver. He recently worked in the polyurethane. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he came to serve the people. He was sent to a military camp in Rehovot and was wounded there while carrying out his duties. Yaakov was transferred to the Yarkon Hospital in Tel Aviv and died two weeks later, on the 22nd of May 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. Left a wife, who he married eight months before his fall.