Wax, Zeev

Son of Necha and Yitzhak-David, was born on October 6, 1922 in Poland. In his youth, he emigrated to Paris. He was a printing worker and member of the left-wing Poalei Zion organization. During the Second World War he escaped from the Nazi invaders to southern France, from where he fled to Spain in 1943, and from Spain he immigrated to Israel and began working in a printing press in Jerusalem. In 1944 he volunteered for the Jewish Brigade and took part in activities in Italy and the Low Countries and also visited France. After his discharge from the army he returned to Israel and worked in Jerusalem and lived in the Old City. At the outbreak of the War of Independence (following the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of Palestine), he worked at the government printing press in Jerusalem, which is located in the Lev of an Arab neighborhood, In the city he left his job and enlisted a full-time enlistment in the ranks of the security forces and without hesitation joined the companies that secured the supply convoys to Atarot, Mount Scopus, Ramat Rachel and other places. A division of the “Noam” Company as a reinforcement for the protection of the Castel, and in the fierce battles between the Hagana forces and the Arabs showed heroism He left the general position and did not leave his position, an important machine-gun position, even after he was severely wounded and continued to fire at the assailants until his last moments. (19.11.1953) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.