Shor, A.

During the First World War, he volunteered in the Land of Israel for the Jewish Legion – the 40th Battalion of the King’s Soldiers in the British Army, later known as the “First Battalion of Judah.” The purpose of the Battalions was to liberate Palestine from the Turks. He served in Tel-el-Kabir in Egypt and later near Haifa. On Wednesday, April 4, 1919, when his regiment was bathing in Atlit, he was drowned in the sea, and his friend, Eliahu Golomb, tried to save him, but his body was brought to rest in the British military cemetery in Haifa. He was immortalized in the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail