Sharabi, Meir

The only son of Shoshana and Issachar was born on September 15, 1928 in Tel Aviv, studied in a Yemenite room and attained great knowledge of Torah and Mishnah and later completed Talmud Torah for Yemenites. As an apprentice in the “Achdut” printing press, he continued to work in the “HaPoel Hatza’ir” printing press and completed three classes of the evening high school, aspiring to own his own printing house. When he was drafted into the army in February 1948, he rejected the advice of a friend who wanted to be released from combat service After training, he joined the auxiliary company of one of the battalions in the Givati ​​Brigade and served with convoy convoys to the Negev, guarding the water line, as well as purification, reward and attack operations near Ashdod, protecting Nitzanim, attacking the police Najib, Iraq-Suidan, etc. In the “Ten Days” battles that followed the first truce, he took part in the attack on Crete and its bases and Operation Yoav in the eastern sector of the front and seized the blocking of the Beit Jubrin road, among them Khirbat Masara. In this battle, on the 16th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 16, 1948), he was hit by an Egyptian shell and fell during an assault on the outpost. He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery.