Shemesh, Shimon
Son of Pnina and Moshe, was born in Baghdad in 1913, the capital of Iraq. From his youth he aspired to immigrate to Palestine and, at the age of twenty, in 1933, informed his parents that he would come up without considering the various obstacles that would stand in his way. At the same time, he assured them that he would do all he could to get them up as well, and he even kept his promise. As soon as he arrived in Israel, he participated in the seminar of Hakibbutz Hameuchad in Ein Harod. Where he learned and knew the problems of Zionism and the Yishuv in Israel. Shimon was one of the first settlers in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood. His profession is a taxi driver. He was a member of the Haganah and enlisted in the Guard for the Guard of the Railways and received the rank of corporal. During the bloody riots of 1936-1939 he participated in the defense of Hatikva neighborhood. He was one of the activists of the neighborhood committee. Upon the outbreak of the War of Independence he served in the “Kiryati” Brigade, was elected to the security committee of the Hatikva neighborhood and Ezra neighborhood. Shimon fell in an operational accident on April 28, 1948, near the Hatikva neighborhood, during an action against the village of the rioters Salameh when he tried to use the mortar. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. A few days after his death his firstborn son was born. After he fell, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant.
