Plos, Aryeh

Son of Bluma and Shlomo, was born on March 14, 1905, in the city of Rozbedov, west of Galicia, as a young man from an affluent family who began his Zionist activities in his city and was the driving force in this work. In 1936 he immigrated to Israel with his wife and son, who was born in France on their way to Eretz Israel, and Arie fought hard for his existence, worked in the southern Dead Sea And in the British army camps in the south and the north, and only once every two weeks or once a month was he allowed to visit his family, and in recent years he worked at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. A member of the Haganah since his arrival in Israel, and when he got along at work in Jerusalem, he would go out with a good Lev for a vigil after a hard day’s work and loyally fulfill all of his duties. In the winter of 1948, with the start of the War of Independence following the United Nations General Assembly resolution to partition the country into two states, he fulfilled his role in Hadassah in both work and defense, but the danger of the road prevented him from returning to his post after a brief visit to the house. Aryeh was among the immigrants to Mount Scopus in the convoy of scientists and medicine. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy gunfire at it. Some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and an escort escort were caught in ambush. For many hours the convoy members fought and tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles. Fire from our positions in the city and Mount Scopus, as well as armored vehicles sent to the area, failed to help the convoy. British military forces in the area did not intervene and did nothing to help, despite appeals to them. In the afternoon the Arabs managed to set fire to two buses on their passengers. Only in the late evening did the British intervene and rescue the survivors from the trapped vehicles. Aryeh was among the fallen on the 4th of Nissan 5708 (April 13, 1948.) He was brought to eternal rest in a grave in the Sanhedria cemetery.