Toledano, Chaim

Son of Farcha-Malka and Yaakov, a descendant of Rabbi Toledano’s family, was born in June 1904 in Tiberias. He had a high school education and worked as a clerk. During the 1929 riots, he was a member of the Haganah. Haim served for three years in the Mandatory Police (1933-1936). His resignation from the police in 1936 came because of his refusal to arrest an illegal immigrant. He was a member of the Civil Guard from the time of the riots and a member of the Haganah during the Second World War, and he fulfilled his duties with devotion, was modest in his ways and was a man of good spirits. From the day of the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was a member of the “|Mishmar haam” in Jerusalem, and when the situation worsened he decided to join the Israel Defense Forces and took an active part in the defense of Jerusalem. In Sheik Bader A he left a wife and six children on the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.