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Tahori, Yehoshua

Tahori, Yehoshua

Son of Nechama and Eliezer, was born on the 27th of Cheshvon, November 22, 1927 in Jerusalem. Yehoshua studied at the Talmud Torah and Hebron Yeshiva. He joined the religious brigade of the Givati ​​Brigade, trained and participated in defensive and combat activities with the enthusiasm of fulfilling a mitzvah with joy, while maintaining discipline with coolness and loyalty. After the fall of the Lamed-Hah platoon, he volunteered to reinforce
the religious company that was sent there by air, Primus. “The day before his departure, he managed to donate his blood to the blood bank at the Tel Aviv municipal hospital. He saw the battles as a holy service, and there too he would devote time to the Torah with special deliberation. On 12 May, at the time of the great attack by the Legion on the Gush, hand grenades stopped the Arab Legionnaires who were approaching their extreme position and his comrades managed to escape, but Yehoshua fell there on the day of the fall of Kfar Etzion on the 4th of Iyar, May 13, 1948. On the 25th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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