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Sharabi, Yosef

Sharabi, Yosef


Was born on June 12, 1932, in a neighborhood on the border of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, where he grew up in the Ezra and Bitzaron neighborhood in Rishon Letzion and completed seven elementary school classes. He was a young man who worked as a young man in the army and went out to work to help with the household agriculture. “Kerem near the beginning of the War of Independence and temporary service moved to full service in the Golani Brigade. After the withdrawal from Jenin, the line reached the first truce in the ridge north of Jenin. With the resumption of fighting at the end of the first truce, the Iraqis aggressively attacked this line. In view of the enemy’s superiority, our forces had to retreat and set up a new line on the Gilboa ridge. In these battles, in the area of ​​Mukibla, Joseph fell on the 3rd of Tammuz 5707 (10.7.1948), shortly after the age of 16. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Afula.

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