Nussbaum, Baruch

Was born on 18.8.1929 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1938. He first studied at the Maale School in Jerusalem and after completing eighth grade chose agriculture and went to study in Mikvah Israel. Where he joined the Haganah and trained in intensive training. When he completed his studies at Mikvah Israel he suffered from paralysis and was unable to work in agriculture. He studied and completed his studies in electricity and acquired complete knowledge of technical work in general. Despite his physical condition, he continued to train in the Haganah in Jerusalem. When the War of Independence broke out after the United Nations General Assembly decided on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states, he took up active duty to defend the city, although he could have been released because of his illness, Noam, “in which he also took on the role of a weapon, always volunteered for the replacement of friends in the role Baruch demanded and achieved his participation accompanied by convoys and behaved coolly in the line of fire, in fierce battles, and so in his last battle to defend the Hadassah convoy, The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, and when the war broke out, the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus after the British promised the road was open and safe, and the convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled fierce gunfire at it. And the armored vehicles were ambushed and ambushed for many hours by convoy members, who tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles, which were fired from our positions in the city and Mount Scopus, as well as armored vehicles who were sent to the area, were unable to assist the convoy. . In the afternoon, the Arabs managed to set fire to two buses on their passengers, and only late in the evening did the British intervene and rescue the survivors from the trapped vehicles. He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the 5th of Elul 5711 (6.9.1951), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.