Shalom, Ben-Zion

Was born in 1910. He was born in Jerusalem in 1910. His family returned to Yemen and stayed there for a while, but returned to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where they lived in the home of Meyuchas in “Yemin Moshe.” She was a member of the “Weingarten” orphanage and had four daughters and two sons, and he worked as a laborer at the Haoman publishing house, while at the same time Son of-Zion was a public activist in Histadrut institutions. Haganah. “With the outbreak of the War of Independence and the increase in fighting in Jerusalem, groups of Solel Boneh workers were sent, at the request of the Hagana headquarters in the city , To fortify the Jewish residential areas against the looting and shelling of Arab Legion soldiers, including Son of-Zion, on May 18, 1948, while he was engaged in fortifications, was hit by a bullet of A Jordanian sniper in the spine died from his wounds. He was buried in Sheikh Bader. Esther and six children – Avshalom, Batya, Carmela, Ziona, Chana and Michael – as well as a brother and two sisters. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl