Tzedek, Chaim

Was born in Izmir, Turkey, completed elementary school and three high school classes and immigrated to Israel in 1935. He completed his knowledge of Hebrew and English in evening classes. From the time he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1941, he served in the police force, and he married Ester and had a daughter (two twin sons, one of whom was named after him.) In the winter of 1948 he took part in the defense of the Jewish community in Jerusalem From the police school. When the car passed through the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, it was hit by a bullet and fell on January 16, 1948. He was buried on the Mount of Olives, and his memorial was erected at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. – Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of fighters who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were brought for burial on the Mount of Olives.