Silman, Aaron
Son of-Batya and Meir, was born on May 17, 1925) in Jerusalem. An only child to his parents who had been educated in the spirit of work and love for school. He graduated from Tachkemoni and was accepted to the high school. In the early days of his youth he was active in the business of the whole. He published lists in the school newspaper, was a counselor in “Mahanot Ha’olim” and the abandoned youth in the suburbs of Jerusalem. The day after completing his matriculation exams, he volunteered for the Palmach and spent two years in a conscripted training program, and with his friends in the settlement of Misgav Am, he returned to Jerusalem to study at the Hebrew University. The Student Union and an activist in Mapai’s Young Guard. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he abandoned the school and joined the defenders. He refused to take on a command post, was among the convoy escorts on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv route, as well as among those escorting the convoy that brought the heads of the Jewish Agency from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which was severely attacked on Mount Castel and fell on its defense on December 26, 1947)). He was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In his final thesis at the elementary school, he wrote at the age of 14: “My ambition is to be a true pioneer in every place of danger, to be a farmer working in the land, to live a life with friends and to die for the sanctification of a lofty idea.” And these exist. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.
