Yair-Mahdala, Aharon

Son of Shoshana and Shalom, was born in 1913 in the Yemenite neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda near Petah Tikva. When he was one year old, he was circumcised and raised in conditions of poverty and labor. Aharon attended elementary school and at a young age began to work as an agricultural laborer. He liked sports and worked at leisure. For five years he served in Notarot. Due to his strong national consciousness, he joined the Irgun underground, and even when he was already married and the father of three sons (his eldest son read Ze’ev in memory of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, he wanted to read Herzl, but because of family disagreement) And in the winter of 1948 against the Arabs. After the establishment of the State of Israel, he joined with his comrades in the IDF and served in one of the Givati ​​Brigade battalions, and fought valiantly against the Egyptian invader, taking part in Operation Yanuv for the breakthrough to the Negev and falling in battle for the ” 17.10.1948) was brought to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg, and on the 14th of Tishrai, October 21, 1948, the brigade’s combat page stated that the Baran object, taken from enemy hands, was named after him.