Gan HaShnayim
Terror Attack Place:
Near Beit Dagon police
Commemoration Site:
Gan Yavne
Area:
Central Israel
Type:
Garden/Park
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On October 18, 1938, Avraham Cohen, aged 30, traveled to Tel Aviv with his friend Meir Averbuch, aged 29, his deputy for security matters in Gan Yavne.
In the evening, they boarded a bus on their way back to the settlement, and after the bus passed the Bat Dagon police station, it was attacked with gunfire by a gang of Arab rioters. (The location of the ambush and murder was probably Beit Dagen [now Beit Dagon], an Arab village on the main road from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Near the village was a British police building modeled after 'Tygart's Fort', the Beit Dagen police station.)
The two were hit by bullets and killed on the spot. Avraham managed to fire one shot from his pistol.
He was laid to rest with his friend in a mass grave in Gan Yavne.
Photo: Avishai Teicher
