Smaragd Shimon (Sam, Shimel)

Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria, on January 1, 1924, his father was a US-born sculptor who settled in Central Europe, and was educated in English, and when the Nazis took control of Austria he managed to escape to Switzerland. Where he found temporary shelter and tried to use the time to train in the profession he had chosen for the future: Journalism With the help of the Immigrant Youth Project, he was raised to Israel in 1940. He spent two years in a youth group in the Osha group in the Zevulun Valley, And enlisted in the British Army, where he had a strong sense of vengeance when he learned that his mother had perished in an extermination camp and spent four years in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, France and Britain. He was admitted to the British Military Academy in 1947 and was discharged from the British army in 1947. He had a captain’s rank and was a citizen of Jerusalem for a while and was accepted to work in the Jerusalem Voice and wrote extensively for the pioneers and military and political problems of the country. A division of the Jerusalem Brigade, was credited with conquering the Miss-Kerry outpost in southwest Jerusalem, which led to the capture of Ein Karem, and on September 14, 1948, Shimon fell in the village of Malha, His brother Ludwig Baal (Smargad), who fell in defense of Negba. After his fall, he was granted the rank of captain. His superior described his qualities in these words: “He was an intelligent commander with a healthy tactical consideration, very courageous, very well trained, and with excellent leadership ability.” The writer Molly son of-David brought his estate to print. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.