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Ohayon, Shalom (Srul)

Ohayon, Shalom (Srul)


Shalom, son of Sultana and Yehuda Ohayan, was born in 1925 in France. In 1948 he immigrated to Palestine and joined the French Commando, a unit of the Negev Brigade, whose nucleus was French volunteers, some of whom were veterans of the French underground of World War II. During Operation Horev to remove the Egyptian army from the country, the French Commando was forced to conquer the Tamila outposts on the Beersheba-Nitzana road. The company succeeded in conquering one of the outposts and preparing it, but the Egyptians launched a counterattack under cover from the outposts that had not yet been conquered. After a number of attacks were repulsed, they were forced to retreat, and only after the arrival of reinforcements were the Egyptian outposts occupied. On December 26, 1948, Shalom fell in battle and was buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Revivim. Survived by his parents, brothers and sisters. His name was commemorated in a Torah scroll written in memory of the heroes of the War of Independence.

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