Sharabi, Menachem

Son of Esther and Yehuda, was born on April 6, 1928 in the Sha’arayim neighborhood near Rehovot. When he was about 4 years old, he died from his father and grew up in difficult living conditions. Menahem studied in the Talmud Torah in the neighborhood, and when he reached the age of 14 he went to work in agriculture to support his widowed mother. After the outbreak of the War of Independence in January 1948, he passed a course for squad commanders and was immediately recruited into a campaign against the gangs in the south and harassed him. Kane, who was a member of the Givati ​​Brigade, participated in the patrols and in the search for the Egyptian routes between Majdal and Gaza, and on the 3rd of Tevet 5709 (3.1.1949) On the Skeletia outpost, which was occupied at the beginning of the war by the enemy and from which the Ramat Hakovesh farm was harassed. In the heat of battle, Barkat was injured when he changed the chains of bullets with his machine gun. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.