Simon, Ernest-Jonathan (Jonah)

Son of Johanna and Siegfried. He was born on January 18, 1818, in Münster, Germany, and completed his studies in the town’s high school, where his father was a veterinarian and from there he took his love of animals and nature in general. He moved to Kiryat Bialik, where he worked as an agricultural laborer, and after his father’s death, his mother and brother immigrated to Israel and Yona joined his mother and worked in a drink in the Samaria Garden. In 1943 he accepted the call of the institutions of the Yishuv and enlisted in the British army, was placed in the transport corps and served as a driver. In late April 1943, a convoy of Allied ships headed from Egypt to Sicily, via Malta, to participate in the invasion of Europe, and on one of the ships, “Aryanpura” were also members of Yona’s company. A German reconnaissance plane, which immediately called the bombers, arrived at the scene and left the caravan in the evening and bombarded the convoy, and the Aryanpura suffered a direct hit and drowned, killing one hundred and forty of the company’s soldiers, including Yonah, in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. , A monument was erected in memory of the missing, in the form of a ship, and next to it a water pool with engraved names of all the company’s soldiers who drowned in the sea. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.