Segal, Israel (“Iska”)

Son of Chaya and Abraham. He was born on June 21, 1921 in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Eretz Israel with his family in 1925 when he was four years old. The family settled in Tel Aviv and Israel began to study at the elementary school of “Kol Yisrael Haverim”. He was an excellent student at the school, knew the languages, French, Arabic and English and liked his teachers and friends. Israel was a member of the Maccabi Hatzair organization and was a sports instructor in Maccabi. He also directed a signal around Haifa. For a while he worked as a clerk at the Jaffa port. During World War II, Israel responded to the call of Yishuv institutions and volunteered for the British Army. He was assigned to the Jewish Transport Company 462 and served in Lebanon and Egypt. In April 1943, he and his company members boarded the ship “Arinapura”, which sailed from Alexandria to Malta to participate in the Allied invasion of Sicily. On the 27th of Nisan 5703 (May 1, 1943), when the ship was at sea, the convoy discovered a German reconnaissance plane. German bombers attacked the convoy, the “Aryanpura” was hit directly and went down to the depths with 140 soldiers of the company and Israel among them. Survived by his parents and brother. His name was immortalized in the book “The Volunteer Book,” in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” in 1946. A memorial monument was erected in the cemetery in the form of a ship and next to it a water pool with the names of the fallen. – a space whose burial place is unknown.