Papola, Nissim

He was born in 1908 in Egypt to a respected religious family (he was the nephew of Rabbi YB Papola) and immigrated to Eretz Israel when he was 10. At the age of thirteen he was forced to stop his studies and go to work, He was a devoted member of the “Maccabi” association from the age of 15 until the day of his death, and in the 1929 riots he was among the car security guards who rescued the dead from Motza, among them the Maklef family. Nissim was a courageous young man and a favorite of his friends because of his simplicity of conduct and his direct and open-minded approach to every person. On 28 Elul, the 15th of September, 1936), when he rode his motorcycle to return to the Abu Kabir police station, Nissim was seriously injured in a collision with an Arab truck, and was taken to Hadassah Hospital where he died of his wounds. He was buried in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.