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Yacobi, Meir

Yacobi, Meir

Meir, son of David and Haviva Yacobi, was born in 1935 in Jerusalem. He volunteered for the paratroopers and later moved to the Rangers. During one of his tours, he was captured by the Syrians, where he was imprisoned for a year and four months. With the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign, he went out to battle again and on the 27th of Cheshvan, 1.11.1956, he fell in the Mitla Pass battle. He was buried in the military cemetery of the emergency army in Shalach and on 24.10.1957, he was laid to rest in the Beit Alfa cemetery. His child who was born about five months after his fall was named after him. On the eve of Independence Day in 1960, a playground was opened in Beit Alpha called “Meir Garden.”

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