Tabak, Yitzhak

Son of Shlomo. He was born in 1901 in Shepetovka, the district of Volhynia, in Russia, and in April 1921 he immigrated to Eretz Israel as a pioneer and stayed at the immigrants’ home in Jaffa. Three weeks later, on the 23rd of Nisan, 1.5.1921, the immigrants’ house was the first target of the Arab rioters. The pioneers, who lived there, barricaded themselves inside the house and managed to repel two attacks. In the third attack, Arab rioters armed with rifles joined the mob, and the crowd managed to break into the house and kill twelve of its inhabitants. Yitzhak fought valiantly against the rioters, and despite his injury (a nurse who was still there to bandage his wounds), he continued to defend himself fiercely, but when he was wounded again, he died of his wounds. He was buried in a mass grave in the old cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv. His memoirs were published in the journal “Kuntress”.