Wiseman, Chaim Yirmiyahu

Son of Malka and Ben-Zion. He was born in July 1916 in Safed. His parents were from the families of sofrim (scribes), and his father was from a family from the first Hassidic immigration and his mother was from a rabbinical family. He grew up in a religiously observant family. He suffered from partial paralysis from polio and only after an operation in Prague, was he completely out of danger or even completely recovered. In 1921 the family returned to Eretz Israel. Afterward, he moved to the Petach Tikva settlement following his older brother, where he studied In the religious school “Netzach Yisrael”. He joined the “Ha-Mahanot Ha’olim” movement and joined the “HaNo’ar HaOlim” movement in Kiryat Haroshet, where he and his friends began working there. He served in the group as a group sergeant, but he also served in the army, and participated in repelling the attacks in the vicinity of Couscous and Seth Abrik, and he was transferred to an infantry class in the forest. He was fond of his friends with a sensitive heart and a lover of music, yet brave and fearless. Before the invasion of Vichy’s French-occupied armies by the Allied armies, the Haganah provided the British army with a selected group of twenty-three graduates of the naval training and sabotage course to blow up oil refineries off the Tripoli coast of Lebanon. After detailed planning and early practice, the group accompanied a British officer to the desired destination. In the early hours of May 18, 1941, they sailed in the “Sea Ari” motorboat, equipped with supplies and weapons, as well as a wireless transmitter, life jackets and three small boats. The identity cards they might have left behind. The last signal they broadcast was at midday, and days later, when no sign of a sign of life was received, it became clear that a disaster had occurred. To this day, the circumstances of this disaster and the location of the young people have not been known. Chaim left parents and brothers and sisters. Yitzhak Sadeh said in a eulogy to the fallen: “To this day, it is not known how the twenty-three perished. Those who knew them very closely know only what is lost. His name was immortalized in the book “Secret Shield” and in the book “The Israelite Deer on your Stage is Void”. The twenty-three Yordei Ha-Sira were commemorated in the streets named after them in various cities in Israel, and the name of the Acre Maritime School was named after them. In the military cemetery of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, the names of all the fallen were inscribed in 2017.