Sildine, D.

During the First World War, he lived in Chicago, USA, and responded to the call of the Zionist customs, Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Pinchas Rotenberg, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in the Jericho front and in the conquest of a-Salt in Transjordan. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from A-Salt to Jerusalem and many of its soldiers fell ill and died. Among them was Sildine. On 24 Cheshvan, October 30, 1918, he died while carrying out his duties. His name was commemorated at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that his place of commemoration on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. His burial place is unknown.