Rubovitch, Alexander (“Chaim”)

Son of Miriam and Yehoshua Yedidya. He was born on October 17, 1929 in Jerusalem. His father was a pharmacist in the Mea Shearim neighborhood. Alexander, as they called him at his home, studied at the Tachkemoni elementary school and, at the end of his studies, went to study at the “Ma’aleh” high school. He was a social boy, full of life, yet a heavy-headed, humble and gentle man. As a high school student, he joined the underground Lehi Fighters of Israel (Lehi) and the Brit Chashmonaim Zionist youth movement that was associated with the underground. He then began to prepare for the matriculation exams on his own, yet his head and most of his activities went into the underground. Soon he was appointed commander of a class that distributed leaflets and stuck them in the streets. On his dedication and willingness to sacrifice, his commander, Yael son of-Dov, says: “More than once he told me with seriousness and seriousness: Yael, I am very sorry that I do not have an evening voice. On the afternoon of 16 Iyar 5747 (May 6, 1947), in the afternoon, he said at home that he was going to take material from a friend, went out to the street and never returned. Afterward, the sixteen-year-old boy was caught infecting Lehi posters in the Rehavia neighborhood, and the worried family contacted the police and a few days later published his picture in public and appealed to the public to assist in his efforts to find him. And his friends were playing in the street and suddenly they saw a man chasing a boy, and the young men followed them and witnessed the wrestling between the two and Alexander’s efforts to evade the man until he managed to drag the boy into a car that came and stopped next to them. With the rank of captain who was loaned to the Palestine Police and headed a group of policemen Who fled to Syria, returned and fled again until finally he was extradited and tried before a British military court, accused of kidnapping and murdering Alexander, and despite his total identification and the many testimonies collected, he was acquitted of “lack of proof.” At the initiative of the former Lehi members, a stone was placed in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of him and students of the Orthodox State Religious School named after Rabbi Pardes planted a grove bearing his name. It also bears a street name in East Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.