Nachshon, Shlomo (Shimshon)

Son of Margalit and Aharon. He was born on May 4, 1928 in Tel Aviv. In his parents’ home, one of the first Yemenite immigrants, he was educated on the love of the people and his country. He studied at the “Talmud Torah” school for Yemenites, and already in his youth he discovered talent in music and singing. He had an evening voice and was fond of all his friends. He was modest in his ways and yet brave. He wandered around the country and learned to know and love her. In 1940, during World War II, his father was killed in the bombing of Italian airplanes, and young Shlomo came to help his mother, who was forced to bear the burden of supporting the household. After World War II, with the discovery of the horrific dimensions of the Holocaust of European Jewry and the intensification of the armed anti-British struggle by the Etzel and Lehi underground movements, the 16-year-old boy found his way to Lehi and immediately became prominent in his devotion to the underground and participated in many daring activities. On 22 Cheshvan, November 16, 1946, he was called to secure a squad carrying leaflets. An ambush by British police discovered them, grabbed one of them and led him to the Dizengoff police station. In an attempt to release the detainee, Shlomo stormed the station, fired a pistol at a British policeman, and took his weapon, but was wounded by bullets from the building. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak near Tel Aviv.