Mizrahi, Yosef Sabato

He was born in 1917 in Palestine and lived in Haifa. Yosef, whose family immigrated to Israel from Kurdistan, was a Haganah man from his youth and supported his family, a wife and two children, from his work as a driver in the Histadrut cooperative. Even during the bloody riots of 1936-1939, when the assassinations of Jewish transportation were daily, Yosef did not stop working and provided regular supplies of flour and foodstuffs to the city. On 7 Adar, February 26, 1939, as he was making his way through a truck laden with sacks of flour from the lower city toward Hadar HaCarmel, opposite the Eastern Railway Station, a bomb was thrown at the truck and Yosef was killed along with his assistant Reuven Kaplan and another Jew, Pinhas Biram. The three of them were buried at a funeral in Haifa’s new cemetery.