Zar, Abraham

Son of Leah and Joseph, was born in 1932 in the city of Mashhad in Persia, the city of the Marranos, and in 1937 immigrated with his parents to Jerusalem. He studied for several years in the “Talmud Torah” of the Peres community, and because of the need to help a family with small children from which he went to work in the laundry and specialized in the profession. For about six months he was an active member of Maccabi Bar Kochva, then moved to Betar and joined the Irgun underground. He liked sports and music and played the violin and violin. Although hiding his affiliation with the underground, he did not conceal his anti-British views and feelings from his fellow workers, and in his work he emphasized his contempt for the British policemen and refused to serve them in carrying their packages from the car to the laundromat. From the beginning of the War of Independence, he came to active service in his organization and took part in the defense of West Jerusalem neighborhoods and in various other battles. In the Battle of Malcha, when he refused to hide in the shelter, he was hit by an enemy shell and fell on the 8th of Tammuz, 5708 (14 July 1948.) He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On September 10, 1950, at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.