Zweig, Ze’ev-Yosef
Ze-ev Yosef, son of Chava and Shmuel Zweig, was born on May 18, 1922 in Tel Aviv. Later he studied radio technology. He was active in the Betar movement together with his father. At the age of 14, he completed a commanders’ course and later served as the commander of the Neve Tzedek branch. He served in the Irgun underground (called “Sergeant A. Zadok”), excelled in training and took part in various combat activities against the Arabs and later against the British. Because of a leg injury,
Ze-ev Yosef was confined for two years to bed in the hospital and at home and remained with a limp. In September 1944 he was arrested by the British Intelligence and flown to Africa with the first convoy of 251 exiled members to Eritrea and Sudan. After being returned to Israel, Ze-ev Yosef was imprisoned for another three months in Latrun and again briefly detained and released. In the winter of 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, he took part in the defense of Tel Aviv on the front of Manshiyya. Ze-ev Yosef was one of the initiators and planners of the conquest of the Manshiyya neighborhood in northern Jaffa by the Irgun units, and despite the injury in his leg, he also participated in the execution of the plan. When he went to remove a wounded man from his position on Zerah Barnet Street, he was hit by a bullet fired from the roof of the British Intelligence headquarters in Jaffa. Ze-ev Yosef fell on the 15th of Nissan, April 25, 1948, the second day of the Etzel attack on Jaffa. Ze’ev Yosef was buried in the Nachalat Yitzhak military cemetery.
