Omassi, Zechariah

Son of Leah and Ovadia was born on 16.4.1929 in Rishon Letzion, where he studied at the elementary school of the Moshava, and when he was 10 years old he left school and studied for a short time in the Yeshiva of Rishon Le Zion. At first he worked as a butcher and then moved to the “Gavish” glass factory, where he worked hard work that was more than his strength And during the period of the curfew he was beaten by the British and put in prison in Jaffa and Latrun, and during his imprisonment he wrote poems (one of his verses: “A great flame in a burning Lev – loved When the War of Independence broke out, he served in the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in the battles of Zrifin, Tel Arish, Ramle, Bab al-Wad, and then he went down to the Negev and fought in the Kochba and Yad Mordechai. A-Rish was missing for 24 hours and came crawling to Mikvah Israel, where he was wounded in his hand, during which he was attacked by enemy forces in the village of Hulikat, during which he attacked the enemy bunker with Baran. He fell and fell on the 16th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 19, 1948). He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery.