Ulovitch, Ben-Ami (Boaz)

Son of Leah and Simcha. He was born on February 16, 1924 in Berlin to a Zionist family of Hassidic descent from Galicia. In 1926, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where Ben-Ami studied in a Talmud Torah for boys founded by the Mizrachi, continued his studies at the Mizrachi Seminary and later at the Matriculation High School. He would also go to a Beit Midrash to study Gemara. In 1941 he joined the Irgun. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the Israeli infantry brigade “Bafs” and was among the “prisoners of the sergeant” who refused to wear the “Palestinian” symbol at the end of 1943. During his military service he joined the Lehi underground, supplied ammunition and bombs, He became a deputy commander of the operation to blow up military planes at the airport near Kfar Sirkin. “On 19 Sivan (18.6.1946), he was the commander of the attack on the workshops in Haifa and on the way to retreat was one of the first of the fallen from the British troops who set an ambush. He was buried in the cemetery of Haifa. Left parents, brother and sister. His name was immortalized in the books “Acre Fortress”; “Unknown soldiers;” “Irgun Systems” and Lehi writings.