Sapir, Yaakov

A Jerusalem man and a devoted member of the Haganah. During the 1921 riots he joined a group of Jerusalem Haganah members who used to enter the Old City from time to time to reinforce the Haganah forces on the site. On 27 Tamuz, 23 July 1922, during training in dismantling and assembling pistols, a bullet was fired from the guide’s pistol and seriously wounded Yaakov, who was rushed to the hospital unconscious and died there. His friends quickly took him out of the hospital and buried him on the Mount of Olives for fear that the incident would be discovered by the British. Yaakov’s memory was raised in the book” History of the Haganah “and in the book” Haganah in Jerusalem “.