Rappoport, Eliyahu (Chico)

Son of Tanya and Chaim. Born in Berlin on February 1, 1922, he immigrated to Israel with his father and sister and settled in Tel Aviv in 1933. His mother traveled to the Soviet Union for a visit and did not receive an exit permit until 15 years later, Eliahu graduated from the Tel Nordau School in Tel Aviv and went on to study at the Max Payne Vocational School, where he joined the “Hapoel” company and won many prizes as a swimmer.In World War II he was among the first volunteers to the British army and was assigned to the Air Force In the role of a metalworker, he volunteered for a commando unit six months later and participated in several of its activities on the eve of the British invasion of Lebanon And to Syria, which was then controlled by the French Vichy government, was sent to Lebanon to carry out sabotage operations on the telephone lines between Tire and Beirut, where three British officers and four Jewish Israeli soldiers boarded the ship Mona Lisa, and arrived on the night of June 6, Near its destination, and some of its members went down to a small invasion boat in order to reach the shore, and the ship was hit by a large wave and overturned. According to various testimonies, Eliyahu was collected at sea by New Zealand soldiers. He was transferred to a hospital in Egypt where he died. Lay down parents and sister. A memorial monument was erected on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The newspaper Ha’aretz published an article by Arieh Hashaviya, entitled “The 24 th Man”, describing the action of the commando unit in which Eliahu participated and the circumstances of his absence, and his memory in the “Book of Volunteerism” “Of the Jabotinsky Institute. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.