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Mizrahi, Eliahu

Mizrahi, Eliahu

Son of Margalit and Menashe, was born in 1919 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. At the age of four, in 1923, the family immigrated to Israel. Here he finished elementary school and went to work. Over the years, he specialized as a first class carpenter, raised a family and supported her with dignity. Eliahu and his family lived in the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood of Petah Tikva. As a member of the Irgun underground, his days – working days and work, and his nights – were sacred to the underground, and he was a courageous fighter. In the army he served as a machine gunner in the Givati ​​Brigade. Participated in the “Yoav” operation for the breakthrough to the Negev, in an attack on the Egyptian Regiment 113, and fell in battle on the 17th of Tishrei, 17.10.1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Warburg. He left behind a wife and two children. In the “Combat Leaf” of the Givati ​​Brigade, dated October 21, 1948, it was reported that one of the “Bern” subjects who was killed by our people in that battle was named after him: the subject of “Elijah” Baran.

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