Sharabi, Yosef

Was born in 1916 in Yemen and immigrated to Israel with his family when he was 16. He married Hannah and the couple had five children, and he worked as a truck driver in the “Sapir” truck cooperative. On May 6, 1948, when the situation on the country’s roads worsened, a small convoy of two trucks, on its way from Haifa to Tel Aviv, took off on one of the roads, and on the way between Tira and Atalit the two drivers were forced to stop The soldiers of the Arab Legion who passed through the road at the same time stopped, took Yosef to a nearby field and killed him, and the second driver was saved thanks to the ingenuity he discovered by saying that A. Arabs. Jewish convoy passed in the disaster area shortly after the incident and its members took the body of Joseph to the government hospital in Haifa. He was laid to rest on the day-to Nissan Independence (08/05/1948) military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. Joseph left a wife, three sons and two daughters.