Mizrahi, Baruch

Son of Sarah and Abraham, was born in 1926. This is the Hebrew name of the young Arab, Hamouda Abu-Layan, after he converted to Judaism, and was born as a Muslim to a well-to-do rural family in Israel and was educated in his youth by his mother, who was of Jewish origin. He studied Arabic and the Bible, and from there he became attached to the Jews and decided to live as one of them. He went to Jerusalem and applied to the Chief Rabbinate for conversion and was rejected twice. The third time he was answered and he was 16 at the time. He left his father’s house after a stormy quarrel, and moved to Haifa. Where he became a devout Jew, prayed and put on tefillin, and worked as a clerk. In his youth in Safed he became friends with Betar youth and identified with their views. From the day he became a Jew he joined the underground and became an Irgun member. He was very active and was soon captured by the British. He was arrested in Latrun and was among the exiles of Kenya and Eritrea. He rejected a proposal for liberation at the price of a return to the religion of Muhammad and Arab nationalism, and suffered in the Lev of the abuse of the guards of his Sudanese camp, which was cruel to him, the former Arab, and even more severe wounds. On 18.4.1948 he fell in one of his daring positions when he brought a car bomb to Samaria, and until 1967 he was a missing person and his memorial was erected on Mount Herzl, and after 1967 his body was found and he was buried in the Netanya military cemetery .