Charles Ohayon, the son of Yehuda and Sultana, was born in
He arrived in
Because the nucleus of the Commando leaders were French volunteers (and many were veterans of the World War ll French underground and de-Gaulle’s Free French Army), they were given the task of participating in the expulsion of Egyptian Forces from Israeli territory by capturing the Bir-e-Tamile positions, which controlled the Beersheba-Auja (Nitzana) road. Although the Egyptians mounted a number of strong counterattacks on these recently-captured positions, the heroic resistance of the French Commandos eventually forced the Egyptians to withdraw northwards to Bir Asluj.
Charles Ohayon was killed during “Operation Horev” battles on
Source: Translated from the Yizkor website by Joe Woolf.