Mizrachi, Yehuda

Yehuda, son of Sarah and Shalom Mizrachi, was born on 28.11.1931 in Jerusalem. He grew up in the Sha’arei Pina neighborhood and attended the boys’ school. When he grew up he studied frameworks, worked in a profession he had acquired and supported his parents as best he could. He was a soccer team member, loved the sport and excelled in it. He was naturally quiet, tall and strong. He volunteered for service in the Jerusalem Brigade when he was only 16 and a half, but he looked about twenty years old. Yehuda 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, surrounded 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.