Shapira, Dov (Baba)

Son of-Mania and Eliezer Lazar was born on 28.9.1928 in Odessa, the Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel with his parents on November 5, 1933. He completed six classes here at the Alliance elementary school and one year attended St. Luke’s English School. Worked for Peltours until he was arrested by the British. He joined the Irgun after he was 16 years old and was sent to Latrun, but was arrested again after the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where he was transferred to the Atlit camp and released. And joined his friends who fought in Haifa, completed a class commanders’ course and participated in the battles for the house behind the Armon Cinema, where he was the first occupier of the house. After a while, he joined the battalion in the Golani brigade, participated in the battles in the Galilee, and then went down with the brigade to the Negev. To destroy Egyptian attempts to advance from the Gaza Strip to the east, and in the course of these battles a number of enemy tanks were destroyed On December 20, 1948, during Operation Horev, he went with his battalion to conquer outpost 86 north of Khan Yunis, to confuse them in the western wing of the front, before the main effort in the eastern wing. Dov was lightly wounded in the forehead, got out of his jeep, brought wounded soldiers to his jeep and sent it to the home front, and by the time the jeep got back his car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb. Dov was taken to Kibbutz Gvulot, on the way he lost a lot of blood and died before he arrived. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.