Percy, Meir

He was born in 1919 in Kurdistan and immigrated to Israel in 1924. He studied in an elementary school and then went to work, and Meir struggled with the difficulties of living to support a wife and five children from the income of a salaried worker. In the War of Independence, he fulfilled his duty loyally in the ranks of the Jerusalem Brigade until he fell on duty at the Stone camp on 8/11/1949. 1948). He was buried in Sheikh Bader. On the 17th of Sivan 5761 (21.6.1951), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem