Yevreboim, Simcha

Son of Breina and Matityahu, was born in February 1921 in the city of Shedlitz, Poland. His father, rabbi and teacher, educated his son in the spirit of Zionism. In 1935, at the age of 14, he immigrated to Israel and joined his older brother, who was in Rishon Letzion. Simcha studied the Hebrew language with great diligence and worked in orchards around the settlement. After a while he joined the Jewish settlement police and was a counselor in the Haganah in the village. During the Second World War he joined the British Army and served there for four years. At the end of the war, he learned that his parents and brothers together with thousands of his city’s Jews had perished in the Nazi massacre. The deep depression and sorrow intensified his desire to liberate the country so that it could serve as a haven for the remnants of Diaspora Jewry. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to his role in the army. He refused to be a military instructor and wanted to go to battle. Simcha served in the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in battles and conquests on the southern front. In a roadblock to the Negev, he fell in a road accident on the 20th of September 1948 near Rishon Letzion while on duty. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion.