Yudov, Eliyahu

Son of Batya and Gabriel. He was born on February 5, 1930, on the 7th of Shvat HaTzar in Tel Aviv, and moved to the Agrovank neighborhood in 1936. He began studying at the “Beit Chinuch for the Children of Workers” in Kiryat Bialak (Bialik School) He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved vehalomed youth movement, and was a friendly, sociable, smart and quick boy who was accepted by his friends in the movement and performed his work at the Rasko company to the satisfaction of his superiors. On 6 Adar, 6.2.1946, the Lehi organization carried out an operation in the British military camp in the Agrovank neighborhood of Holon in order to increase the organization’s weapons. The camp was staffed by British soldiers from South Africa following the Lehi activity. British soldiers began shooting and attacking Jewish passersby in the area. Elijah rode his new bicycle and felt with his friends to help the wounded. Elijah was shot and stabbed and died of his wounds. He was brought to eternal rest in the Haganah section of the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery. Survived by his parents Batya and Gabriel, brother Abraham and four twin sisters Margalit and Hannah and Shulamit and Ilana.