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Shahar, Yaakov Mordechai (“Yankele”)

Shahar, Yaakov Mordechai (“Yankele”)


Son of Laszlo and Gisela. He was born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, during the persecution of the Jews there in 1945. In 1944, he passed away from hell and stayed in various camps, and his mother saved him, After the war, in 1948, in the midst of the War of Independence, the mother immigrated to Israel with her son, and he studied at Kibbutz Tzuba on behalf of Youth Aliyah, and was a diligent child who loved his homeland and Jerusalem. After leaving the kibbutz, he began to work at Solel Boneh, initially as a simple laborer, and later specialized in metalwork and ironwork. Wert was a serious and honest boy and a devoted and loving son of his mother, who brought his full salary to his mother, whom he loved and always cared for. Even before the Six-Day War called to reserve duty and on the third day of the battles, he was 28 Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), fell in a battle near the Italian Hospital in Jerusalem. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In “Yesodot,” the organ of the workers’ union, his memory was raised.

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