Yonah, Victor (“Vito”)
Son of Nissim and Massa. He was born in 1928 in Tripoli, Libya, where his family was very respectable and extensive, he studied in an elementary school, and later in a vocational school where he specialized in goldsmithing, silver and gold. He was a member of the Bnei Yehuda movement in Tripoli, his hometown, and he did not ignore the principles according to which he grew up, and the spirit of the Bnei Yehuda movement on whose knees he was educated, He was brave and proud, and when the events of 1945 broke out in Tripoli and Jewish blood spilled, he rose to the defense of his brothers and their help – and he was only 17 at the time; And when the Jew was murdered with courage and without fear – when a wild Arab crowd threatened to kill him. Afterward, he saw no way but to save his life and disguised himself in disguised attire, fleeing from the city, riding on a camel, and in his pocket some of his mother’s jewelry that he had been given to build his home in the country to which he had taken his feet. In 1948 he came to Israel and settled his tent in the Pardes Katz transit camp, where he went to study the construction work, and was able to do this to the satisfaction of architects and engineers. 1949 was drafted into the IDF and was a dedicated soldier disciplined. His smile, which always floated on his lips, his grace and his gentleness brought him closer to his commanders and comrades-in-arms. While serving in reserve duty, he was wounded in the course of his duty and on 9 Cheshvan, March 4, 1965, he died of his wounds and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.
