Zeruya, Joshua

The son of Hannah and Ayush. Yehoshua was born in Fez, Morocco, on January 1, 1934. There was a brother to Zohara, Eliahu, Shem Tov, Menahem, Max and Amram. On October 1, 1950, at the age of sixteen, Joshua immigrated to Israel, underwent agricultural training in the framework of Youth Aliya and lived in Ein Gev, then moved to Jerusalem and lived in the Talpiot transit camp. Read the books of Sholem Aleichem, his friends called him at the sight of the piles of books above and below his bed, as his brother Shem Tov, who immigrated to Israel six months later, told him: Yehoshua was drafted into the IDF on August 10, 1952, and served until December 1955. His service served as liaison with infantry. After his discharge from compulsory service, Yehoshua enlisted in the Border Police and was assigned to a commanding officer course in Beit Jovrin, where he was subjected to countless fire tests during his service, and a month before his fall, he defended the workers of Mevasseret Zion. “On the afternoon of Monday, September 10, 1956, Joshua’s unit ascended to an ambush of the Jordanian Legion, who infiltrated into Israel in the area of Beit Jubrin the first fire, six soldiers were killed. Joshua was found by the Legionnaires while he was alive, and was brutally murdered, and the bodies were dragged to Jordan for deception, according to the testimony of a Druze soldier in the course who was hiding in the pit until the abduction. UN representatives in Jordan and returned to Israel the next day. Twenty-two years old. He was buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Survived by parents and six brothers and sisters. Joshua did not see his parents for seven years and trouble to bring them to Israel, but he did not see them.