Jacob Sika Aharoni
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Jacob Sika Aharoni | |
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 איש האצ"ל יעקב סיקא אהרוני | |
| Native name | יעקב סיקא אהרוני |
| Born | 21 February 1921 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Died | 21 November 2022 (aged 101) Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Allegiance |  Irgun |
Jacob Sika Aharoni (Hebrew: יעקב סיקא אהרוני; 21 February 1921 – 21 November 2022) was an Israeli Irgun commander, publicist, teacher, journalist, poet and writer. He blew the shofar at the Western Wall during the Mandatory Palestine period and was the leader of the Irgun operation in Iraq that saved many Jews during the farhud period.[1]
Biography[edit]
Aharoni was born in 1921 in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, to Sultana and Rabbi Yitzhak Aharoni, who immigrated from Iran at the beginning of the 20th century. In his youth, he was an apprentice in the Beitar youth movement, and at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Irgun.
He participated in the Irgun operation in Iraq, in which the Irgun commander David Raziel was killed. Ya'akov Meridor and Yaakov Terzi also participated in this operation. Risking their lives and with success, Jacob Sika Aharoni and Ya'akov Terazi completed the operation that led to the entry of the British into Iraq and the rescue of the Jewish community from the Parhud riots.
He was among those who blew the shofar[2] at the Western Wall during the Mandate period. The custom began following a ban by the British government on blowing the shofar at the Western Wall at the end of Yom Kippur following the events of 1955. Despite the ban, Aharoni was one of those who blew the shofar at the Western Wall plaza in 1938, and was arrested because of that.
He participated in other operations of the Irgun including the attack on the national headquarters of the British police on 23 March 1944, the attack on the Beit Dagan police station on the eve of Yom Kippur, 27 September 1944 (an operation he commanded).
In May 1945, during the Sazon period, he was kidnapped, tortured, and interrogated by the "Haganah" and handed over to the British, who exiled him to detention camps in Sudan, Kenya, and Eritrea. He returned from there to Israel on 12 July 1948.
With the establishment of the state, he enlisted in the IDF and served as an instructor in the artillery corps.
Aharoni was a graduate of Tel Aviv University in literature and the Bible. He was involved in education, served as a teacher, educator, and school administrator, and went on educational missions on behalf of the state in countries around the world. On the eve of Khomeini's rise to power, he was on a mission to save the Jews of Iran, and he returned to Israel on the last flight from there. He served for many years as a member of the Ramat Gan Municipality Council, and was beloved by the city of Ramat Gan.
He wrote prose, fiction, poems, articles, and thoughts on various platforms, including "Maariv", "Yediot Ahronoth," "Hatzofa", "Barkai", "Mahot", "Nativ" and "Hauma".
Personal life[edit]
Sika Aharoni married Jerusalem-born Irgun fighter Rachel Aharoni Avisher. The couple has five children, the writer Michal Aharoni Regev, the architect David Raziel Aharoni, the senior manager in the public service Efrat Strauss, the researcher and social activist Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir and the jurist Dr. Sharona Aharoni Goldenberg.
Aharoni died on 21 November 2022, aged 101.
His books[edit]
Sika Aharoni's books reveal a rich and colorful world with many and varied origins. His short stories are written in the Eastern 'Jerusalem' language that draws from the sources of the Talmud and Halacha. His writing earned him the Kset Zahav award from the Association of Hebrew Writers in the State of Israel and some of the prose books he wrote are recommended by the Ministry of Education for the literature curriculum.
References[edit]
- ↑ Etzel commander Yaakov Aharoni
- ↑ "Let freedom ring". The Jerusalem Post. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
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