Solomon-Cohen, Rahamim-Yosef

Son of Miriam and Yosef, was born in 1929 in Tiberias. He studied at an elementary school and later worked as a driver in a “Mercaz” company, and his salary helped support the family with a large number of people. All his friends knew him as a good-hearted guy whom he liked very much. As a member of the Haganah, he was recruited in December 1947, at the beginning of the War of Independence, following a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on partition, to a local mobile unit, which was to assist weak points in the area. Together with his unit, he came out as a reinforcement to the policemen who were called to help the Egged convoy that was attacked near Lubia and was in a difficult situation. The members of the infantry unit managed to break through the enemy’s blockade of the guards and the vehicles and to relieve them of the danger, and when British soldiers appeared and began to fire at the defenders, Rahamim was severely hit by these shots and on the way to the hospital died of his wounds on 13 Adar I 5708 23.2.1948) was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Tiberias.