Casualties Hadassah medical convoy massacre

hadassah convoy memorial @ hadassah university hospital, mt. scopus



hadassah convoy story @ hadassah university hospital, mt. scopus



ha ayin-het street, named slain 78 of convoy har hatzofim

in attack, 78 jews , 1 british soldier killed gunfire or burnt when vehicles set on fire. twenty-three women. among dead dr. chaim yassky, director of hospital, , dr. moshe ben-david, slated head new medical school (which established hebrew university in 1950s).

most of bodies burned beyond recognition. 31 victims identified buried individually. remaining 47 jews purportedly buried in mass grave in sanhedria cemetery. however, in mid-1970s, yehoshua levanon, son of 1 of victims, discovered commission of inquiry convened @ time of attack reported 25 buried in mass grave , 22 victims missing. going in search of missing bodies, in 1993 met arab had participated in ambush, claimed attackers had buried stray body parts in mass grave near lions gate. in 1996 levinson petitioned israeli high court force defense ministry set genetic database identify 25 bodies buried in sanhedria cemetery. mass grave never opened. 1 british soldier died in attack, making total of fatalities 79.