Tzleneker, Yosef Shabtai
Son of Ita and Alexander was born on the 23rd of Elul 5626 (September 2, 1926) in the Old City of Jerusalem. He studied at the Talmud Torah and later at the Tachkemoni elementary school in Tel Aviv. He was a member of Hanoar Haoved and Haganah.With the decision of the UN General Assembly to end the Mandate and the partition of the country and the departure of the British from the Southern District was transferred to the Atlit camp and When he learned that his parents were about to move to the New City (during the Arab attacks and the half-siege of the Old City) he wrote to his father that he would not do so, because the Old City would not be abandoned. When he was liberated from Atlit at the end of winter, the entire country was already a front. On the way home, he took part in the military operations of his organization against the Arabs in Jaffa. When he arrived in Jerusalem, he asked the Jewish Agency for a permit to enter the Old City, but the British police refused to grant him this license. He reluctantly stayed in the new city and participated in its defense day and night. On May 19, 1948, the day before he fell, he said goodbye to his father, who tried to delay him a little: “If I win, I will return, if I do not win, do not be sorry. And he left a souvenir box in his hands for safekeeping. The next day, after the father enlisted and was assigned to work as a “nurs” and transfer dead stretchers to a military hospital, he found the body of his son among them. He was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
