Yaacov Pat

Yaacov Pat (Hebrew: יעקב פת, 1894-1956) (also Yaakov Patt) was a commander of the Haganah in Mandatory Palestine.

[1] Pat was a member of Hashomer, a Jewish defense organization in Ottoman Palestine, and served in the first Hebrew regiments during World War I.

Rose Vitales, who worked for the Va'ad HaKehilla Community Council of Jerusalem, convinced Pat that she could organize a fundraising campaign.

[3] With the help of Rose Vitales, Pat also pushed for the establishment of a branch of Magen David Adom in Jerusalem, which existed at the time only in Haifa.

Yaacov married Tzipora, daughter of Moshe Finkelstein (born in 1902 in Essex, England), whom he met while serving in the Hebrew Battalion and she worked as a nurse at the Scottish Hospital in Tiberias.

Yaacov Pat plowing the land in Atarot , first Kalandiya group, 1913.
Pat neighbourhood in Jerusalem: Goren-Goldstein Park and the Hebrew-Arabic School