Sheratzky, Eliyahu (Alex)

Son of-Hanna and Avraham-Yitzhak was born on March 11, 1929 in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to a family that had emigrated from Poland. Elijah attended a French school and received a Jewish education. In World War II, the family was exterminated by the Nazis, and only he and his sister survived. Learned Hebrew from the volunteer teachers Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade during their service in Belgium after the enemy’s eradication and with their help immigrated to Israel in 1945. He spent a year training in the Youth Aliyah in Ruppin Village and then went to work. Elijah quickly became involved in the life of the country and was fond of his friends in his cheerfulness and mischievousness. As a member of the Haganah, he participated in the defense of Tel Aviv from the beginning of the War of Independence and in attacks on Jaffa and its environs as a combatant in the “Kiryati” Brigade. He was later accepted into a unit of the People’s Guard in Sarona, which was considered the first nucleus of a regular army within the Haganah. From there, he volunteered for the Tel Aviv District’s sabotage unit, finished the course and went out for action. He participated in the great attack on the position in Schanah in Jaffa and after the failure of the attack because of the British help the Arabs blew up a fortified house and an enemy nest nearby and volunteered to remove our wounded from the place of action despite the enemy fire. He also participated in the raids on Lod and Ramle, in the purification of the Zrifin camp from the enemy mines, and in the fortifications and fortifications of the lines of defense between Kfar Ono and the library. During the first truce, the people of the Yishuv mistakenly penetrated our minefield near Kfar Ono, and some of them were injured, and Elijah rushed to their aid, using a mine and crashed on the day of June 17, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.