Slonimski, Yehuda (Judka)

Son of Ahuva and Alter-Benjamin-Zvi, was born on the 29th of Tevet 1927 in Tel Aviv. When he was one year old, his parents moved to Jerusalem. He studied at the Talmud Torah and continued his studies in Yeshivah in Rehovot. At a young age, he began looking for work to ease the economic distress that prevailed at home. In Netanya, he learned the work of polishing the diamonds, but worked as a laborer in a factory. He served for about a year in the Palmach in Givat Brenner, where he returned to Jerusalem, where he worked in the building and paid all his wages to his parents. During his absence, the distress at home increased greatly. Aware that his duty to the homeland precedes his duty to his parents’ home, he immediately returned to the underground, but asked for little support for his mother. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was active in the Irgun and participated in the battle for Sheikh Jarrah, Mount Zion, and in the battle for the defense of Ramat Rachel, as the first occupier of the village of Malha. 1948). His fiancee, Batsheva Yom Tov, an Etzel member, was also killed two days after they fell in a guard post in northern Jerusalem and was buried in Sheik Bader A. On September 10, 1950, he was taken to rest – The military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.