Sayag, Meir

Son of Tamar and Isaac. He was born in 1921 in the Land of Israel and lived in Jerusalem, where he joined the British army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, serving in Egypt and Lebanon. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German reconnaissance plane circled over the convoy of ships headed by the “Aryanpura.” German planes arrived in the evening and bombarded the convoy off the Benghazi coast. One hundred and forty of the soldiers of Company 462 were killed in the disaster; Meir was among them. He left a mother, a sister and three brothers. He is mentioned in the book “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute and in “Sefer” Year of the Press “, 1946. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a memorial monument was erected in the shape of a ship and next to it is a small water pool, at the bottom of which are engraved the names of all the company’s fallen. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.