Shvili, Jacob

Son of Hava and Shmuel. He was born in 1896 in Tiflis, Georgia, and was raised in Jerusalem during World War I. During World War I, he enlisted in the detachment unit under Joseph Trumpeldor, fought with the battalion in Gallipoli and later served in France. After the war he returned to Jerusalem, worked as a builder, married a wife and built his home, joined the ranks of the Haganah and joined the British Mandate in the 1930s, serving in Khan Younis and Beersheba And reached the rank of sergeant (sergeant), and was a counselor in the Jerusalem police, upon the outbreak of the bloody riots During the Second World War he joined the British army and fought in the Libyan desert and in Greece, one of his sons fought in the western desert, and son of Shani joined the Jewish Brigade, After two years of service he was released and enlisted again in the Guard Corps. One day, while he was on his way to a house in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, an Arab car drove by, trampling him and injuring him badly. On December 14, 1943, Yaakov died of his wounds at the government hospital. He was laid to rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. A wife laid two sons and a daughter. His grandson, Daniel Shoval, fell in the course of his service in the IDF in 1985. His memoirs were published in the newspapers of the period and in the “Letter to Notar.”