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Salome, Joshua (Jasper)

Salome, Joshua (Jasper)

Son of Sarah and Aharon, was born on May 23, 1957 in Denmark. In 1977 he joined the hesder yeshiva in Kiryat Arba. In January 1979, he began his service as a rookie in a parachute Nahal unit and was recognized as a lone soldier, and his friends and teachers at the yeshiva said that he “wanted the Torah and the Land of Israel; He found a special interest in the construction of Hebron and intended to build his home there. Spent day and night learning and saw an ideal combined with Torah study in military service. “On January 31, 1980, Joshua traveled to the Casbah of Hebron, where an Arab terrorist approached him and shot him. Who was buried at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and his comrades in the yeshiva set up a memorial for him in his memorial to his family: “We were horrified by the murder of Yehoshua, who came to Israel to fulfill his duty to the homeland and was murdered In a criminal manner. “In his name and in the name of the three yeshiva students who were murdered in Hebron in 1980, the settlement was called Beit Haggai.

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