Toledano, Nissim

Son of Meir and Hasiba. He was born in the city of Meknes, Morocco, on March 9, 1931. He studied in the “Kol Israel Haverim” school there, and was a member of a youth movement, from which he aspired to immigrate to Israel. They saw his enthusiasm as fleeting, but it was not long before he reached the age of seventeen, managed to escape from the family and together with his friends to the movement came to Israel in peace; This was in 1948. Upon arriving on the shores of Eretz Israel, he joined the combat systems of the War of Independence. In 1951, after his parents’ pressure to return to them, he had to fulfill their request out of respect for them. Shortly after his arrival he took a wife on condition that his honeymoon be spent in Israel. Finally, he established his home in Israel and lived there, and found his bread in glass work. He fell on the 12th of Shvat 5719 (21.1.1959) while fulfilling his duties and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left a wife and a daughter.