Ozri, Avraham

Son of Yona and Menachem. He was born in 1927 in Jerusalem to a family of the first immigrants from Yemen who settled in the Nahalat Tzvi neighborhood in Jerusalem, where he lived with his family in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood in the city, and was educated at the Diskin orphanage. In the Borochov Marxist youth movement he was an active and devoted member, and was known to be a good friend, and on November 15, 1945, when he took part in the protests in Tel Aviv against British Foreign Secretary Ernest Boin’s anti-Zionist declaration, he was shot and wounded by British soldiers. He was brought to Hadassah Hospital and two days later, on 12 Kislev, 17 November 1945, died of his wounds. Members of the movement gathered at the Poalei Zion club in Tel Aviv to eulogize him and then he was laid to rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.He left two sisters and a brother. His biography and the circumstances of his death were publicized in The Poalei Zion Journal.