Yanilov, Abraham

Son of Haviva and Mordechai. He was born on March 15, 1913 in March 1933. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933 and lived in Bnei Brak together with his wife Judith, who joined the British army during World War II and was assigned to the 462 unit of the Transportation Corps. , And in April 1943 he sailed with some three hundred soldiers of his unit aboard the ship “Arinapura” from the port of Alexandria, the destination of which was Malta, and the purpose was to help the Allies in the invasion of Sicily On the afternoon of April 1, 1943, A German aircraft squadron attacked the convoy of ships that the “Aryanpora” was in. The ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes it began to sink into the deep, And forty of the soldiers of the unit 462. Avraham was among them, leaving behind a wife and two sisters, his name was immortalized in the book of volunteerism, in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the Book of the Year. , A ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool with the names of the hundred and forty fallen on its bottom.