Mizrachi, Yehuda

Yehuda, the eldest son of Rachel and Jacob Mordechai Mizrachi, was born in 1924 in Jerusalem. Yehuda participated in escorting convoys to Castel and Mount Scopus and fought in Wadi Joz. He set out with his platoon to set up an ambush for Arab transport on the Jerusalem-Ramallah road. On its way to Atarot, the platoon was surrounded by an Arab mob and most of its members were killed. This battle fell on the 23rd of Adar I 5708 (March 4, 1948). He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the 5th of Elul 5711 (6.9.1951), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.