Pesachovitz, Nissan-Nissim

Son of Yocheved and Yehoshua, was born in 1900 in Russia and immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel when he was 6. The family settled in Neveh Shalom in Jaffa, where he completed his studies in elementary school and later worked as a construction worker. During the First World War, he was deported by the Turks to Egypt where he joined the Jewish Legion and when he was liberated he received a medal for his military service in Egypt. There he married a girl who had been orphaned by her parents during the plague of Jaffa in the 1920s. In 1933, the family returned to Israel and settled in Nahalat Ganim. Although he was preoccupied with working for his family’s livelihood, he would report to the guard every night and fulfill other duties assigned to him, among them dangerous duties. When World War II broke out, Nissan was among the first to enlist in the British army. When he was captured by Greece, his unit succeeded in escaping from the captivity, and they were given two weeks’ leave in the country and then transferred to the Suez Canal on guard duty. On 17 Av, August 10, 1941, he went swimming in the Canal and drowned. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Port Said. He left a wife, three daughters and a son. His name was immortalized in the “Book of the Press,” in “The Book of Volunteerism,” and in the book “Yizkor” on behalf of the Jabotinsky Institute. He was forty years old.