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Yagat, Solomon (Zoltan)

Yagat, Solomon (Zoltan)


Son of Nechama and Moshe. He was a member of the “Emunim” group near Nahalat Yehuda in 1940. In 1941 he joined the army and joined the army. He served in Al-Almin, and in April 1943 he sailed with three hundred soldiers of his unit on the deck of the ship “Arinapura” from the port of Alexandria, the destination of which was to help the Allies in the invasion of Sicily. In the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships, headed by the “Aryanpura.” The ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes Began to sink into the depths of the sea, along with a hundred and forty soldiers of the 462 unit, and Shlomo was among them. His name was immortalized in the book of volunteerism, in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the Book of the Year. On Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it is a small water pool with the names of the hundred and forty fallen on its bottom.

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