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Noony, Isaac

Noony, Isaac


Son of Bracha and Nissim was born on August 31, 1926 in Tel Aviv and received a traditional education. He graduated from the “BILU” school and then the “Mizrachi” vocational school, “Shaarei Torah workshop.” As a student at the elementary school, he was attracted to the Scouts movement and was a member of the “Scouts of the Community” Mizrachi “, he made friends with his friends and eventually founded a new group,” Bar Kokhba, “and he was the head of its spokesmen and for a while served as a guide. The Arabic language and the nature of the Arabs were given the most responsible functions. These roles required great courage and he fully maintained them. For a while he worked as a mechanical locksmith, but encountered a bad attitude on the part of the work givers and decided to switch to the clerks. A year later, he graduated from the Safra school for clerks. Because he did not get a job he worked for Shochat. Was awake and anxious for all that was happening in the country. In the days of political tension, on the eve of the War of Independence, he received an order to go to Jaffa to bring news of what was happening among the Arabs. Where he was arrested and placed in a filthy prison without food, until the Yishuv activists managed to release him. During the curfew and the struggle against the British, he was on guard with Molotov cocktails and grenades, and only one worry in his Lev was that his father would not be told. When the conscription was announced, he joined the navy. Was one of the occupiers of the Haifa port and participated in bringing down the immigrants from the first ship anchored in the port after the departure of the British. Was very enthusiastic about raising the Hebrew flag on the mast and the visit of the prime minister to the Hebrew port. Yitzhak fell on the 18th of Tammuz 5707 (18.7.1948) in the battle to open the Haifa-Tel Aviv road near the villages of Jaba and Ein Ghazal. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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