Ziserman, Avraham-Yosef

Was born in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and during his early years he had many illnesses, and when he was about three years old, his family immigrated to Israel and from 1924 grew up in his parents’ home in the Mekor Chaim neighborhood of Jerusalem. A strong and healthy young man. At the sight of his parents’ fierce war of survival, whose livelihood on the farm of cows for milking and small agriculture, he had taken on much of his work in the garden and the barn as a child. He also stopped his studies at the Mizrachi Teachers’ Seminary in the middle, despite his talents, in order to devote himself entirely to the help of the parents in the small farm and in foreign labor in the building. He dedicated his little spare time to sport and to advanced studies in Jewish studies and general education. His humorous essays and newspapers he edited for his small group testified to humor, kindness and talent. Avraham-Yosef lived modestly and made do with little, preserving Torah and tradition, but did not try to force them, even in any word, on others, and in his actions for the people and the country merged with a group of young people of different views without emphasizing the difference between them. In recognition of his obligation to the parents, he never took a vacation for himself, but for his service in the Haganah he found time to spare. At the outbreak of the 1936 riots, his neighbors, far from the Jewish center of the city, did not have sufficient numbers to join the ranks of the Haganah and, thanks to his physical and intellectual development, succeeded in concealing his true age and getting special police service to carry weapons with a permit. , And completed every position as an adult, completed a course for paramedics in 1945. He excelled in studying and editing the lists to the point that doctors offered to print them as an auxiliary booklet for the following courses. In the first aid service, and even from the British who were injured by the organization In the summer of 1947, the “Shachar” (medical service of the Haganah) conducted a course for commanders of the courses. The course lasted 21 days, but given his many knowledge and precious time for work at home he was released from the first two weeks, and after passing the exams he was instructed to train his company in one day’s intensive training in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, but in the meantime the War of Independence broke out and again devoted himself to protecting the neighborhood as a medic and responsible for several positions And defended his duties wisely and heroically day and night, even without food and without sleep and rest. In one of the attacks on the neighborhood of Beit Safafa, he went with two men to an extreme position towards the enemy. After the two fled, Avraham remained alone and returned fire to the attackers until he was wounded in the head. He was transferred to the hospital where he died the next day, on the day of Tevet 5708 (January 8, 1948). He was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.