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Veram, Shlomo

Veram, Shlomo

The son of Bracha and Dov, was born on 27.7.1927 in Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to Israel in 1935. From the age of 14 he was a member of the Haganah and in the underground operations against the British, he was caught and imprisoned in Latrun and sat there with the heads of the Jewish Agency. Shlomo was one of the veteran soldiers in the heavy weapons department of the Tel Aviv unit, and immediately after the UN General Assembly resolution on partition he was drafted into the Givati ​​Brigade. At first Shlomo went to protect the Hatikvah neighborhood and escort convoys to Jerusalem and then participated in the southern cleansing, in the battles of Al-Kubab, Abu Shusha, Yazur, Baraka, in the great attack on Ashdod and in the defense of Beit Daras. During the first truce Shlomo was in Negba and participated in the conquest of Ibdis and in the assault on Iraq-Suwaidan and Beit-Afa. He was attached to his department as a lieutenant colonel and commanded Gahal from North Africa. In the “Yoav” operation to break into the Negev, when Shlomo went to visit the ghettos, he fell on the 15th of Tishrai, October 18, 1948, and on that day he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.

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