Chaim Yassky

He was killed in the Arab attack on a medical convoy bringing supplies to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.

[4] In 1920, Yassky immigrated with his wife Fanny (maiden name Gorodetsky) whom he married in Odessa; to Palestine, where he was appointed district physician of Haifa.

In 1921, he received a medical degree from Geneva University in Switzerland, after specializing in ophthalmology and in 1927, was appointed acting head of the eye department of the Rothschild-Hadassah Hospital.

At the start of World War II, Hadassah formed an emergency committee to administer a health program and to cooperate with the allied medical corps of which Dr. Yassky was a committee-member.

[6] Yassky was killed in the Hadassah medical convoy massacre on April 13, 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, approximately one month before Israel's declaration of independence.