Safrai,Zev

Son of Rivka and Moshe, was born on the 11th of Adar 1, 1927) in Jerusalem. He studied in the Talmud Torah “Etz Chaim” and “Yeshiva”. After he decided to study general studies, he entered the “Amal” vocational school and studied mechanical frameworks there. At the beginning of the year 5705 he joined the “Bnei Akiva” battalion in the Gadna, the “Modi’in” battalion of the religious unit. After completing his studies in the month of Av 1947, he enlisted in the Guard of the Etzion Bloc, which was organized at the time, and was arrested by the British on the charge of pasting the Haganah’s “wall” and was released for lack of proof, The FBI. When the authorities learned that he was serving in the Notar army, they informed him that at the end of the month he would be fired. About half an hour before leaving the convoy from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion, he reported to his former commander and asked him to prepare a position for him when he was released from the Nutras. The convoy on which he left for Gush Etzion on December 11, 1947) found the road blocked by the 12th kilometer from Jerusalem, and a shower of gunfire descended from the mountains. Ze’ev, who was in the second car, jumped out and was shot in the back. As he lay in the ditch he continued to defend himself until a cluster of bullets hit his forehead and the rioters who stormed the victims stabbed him with knives. He was buried in a mass grave on the Mount of Olives. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.