Zakovich, Alexander (Sendy)

Ben Nehama and Yehuda (Julius). Alexander (Sandy) was born in Jerusalem in 1924. He grew up in Jerusalem. World War II began in 1939 and lasted until 1945. Shortly after Alexander began, he volunteered for the British army, and in the final years of the war he served as a pilot. In July 1946, Alexander’s father, Yehuda Julius Jacobs, was one of the senior Jewish officials of the British Mandatory leadership in Palestine and worked in the office of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. He was one of the victims of the Irgun underground bombing. After the war Alexander returned to Israel. Later, during the War of Independence, he served as a pilot in the air force of the young State of Israel. Alexander studied law, and when he became a lawyer he began to work for the firm of Yaakov Salomon in Haifa, where he also lived with his wife. Captain Alexander Jacobs was killed in an accident in Haifa on 20 Cheshvan, October 25, 1956. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where he grew up. He left a wife, mother and sister.