Baruch Mizrahi (Hebrew: ברוך מזרחי; born Hamuda Abu Al-Anyan, 1926 – April 18, 1948) was a Palestinian Arab Muslim convert to Judaism, and a member of the Irgun ("The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine.
[2] At a young age, he became interested in his Jewish neighbors and eventually approached Betar members in Safed who had gathered at the HaMeiri Dairy.
About three weeks after arriving in Eritrea, Mizrahi was severely injured by the Sudanese guards, in an incident where 14 detainees were shot, two of them fatally, on January 17, 1946.
[citation needed] After two years of exile in Africa, Mizrahi was suddenly released, returned to Palestine and became very active in the Irgun, later joining a group of Jewish Brigade veterans who established the Margolin outpost near Beit Lid Junction, Nordia.
He went to the village of Jaba near Nablus, heard from the locals about "the Jew" executed by soldiers of Kaukji and eventually arrived at the cave where Mizrahi was buried.
[citation needed] Beginning in 2015, the Shomron Regional Council began organizing annual pilgrimages to Mizrahi's grave on the anniversary of his death.