Shiff, Jacob (Kobi)

Son of-Pnina and Eliezer was born on 19.11.1928 in Tel Aviv, completed elementary school and high school and worked as a clerk, and when he was 15, he joined the Haganah and participated with the Hachash members in operations and filling Positions in the underground. On the day of the partition resolution at the UN General Assembly on November 29,1947, he celebrated with his comrades in the A Company of Hish in Tel Aviv, and with them he set out to defend the borders of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. He spent only a week participating in activities and guarding positions in the neighborhoods of Hatikva and Ezra, and in those few days he proved to all his dedication and courage. In a post facing Salameh village, his class encountered a patrol of the British police who opened fire on them. Jacob fell in a bullet wound that was shot by a British sergeant on the land of the Hatikva neighborhood on December 6, 1947. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.