South African Soldiers Who Fell in the Defense of Israel

BACKGROUND

South African Jewry is one of the largest Jewish communities on the African continent. One of the most important facets of their history has been the commitment of many of its members to the Zionist movement. Many Jews from South Africa have gone to live in Israel, made Aliyah and served in the Israeli Defense Forces. Philip Gillon documented this history in his work, Seventy Years of South African Aliyah, A Story of Achievement, Edited by the South African Zionist Federation Israel Telfed and published by Adar Publishing Ltd, Israel, 1992. This collection comprises a list of Jewish persons in a South African Jewry 1976/77. 3rd edition. Author: Leon Feldberg. There are 2,176 biographies, with most providing additional names such as spouses and parents.

DATABASE

This database includes 66 Jews from South African who fell in the defense of the Land and State of Israel from 1938 to 1991.

The fields in the database are:

• Surname
• Given name(s)
• Date
• Age

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book was donated to JewishGen by Naomi Schamroth Rapeport and the information contained in this database was indexed and extracted by Malka Chosnek.

September 2025