{geni:about_me} On the 20th of March 1948, a convoy of 12 trucks left Beirut, Lebanon, loaded with munitions and explosives to Haifa. The Haganah ambushed them in Kiryat Motzkin on the main road from Akko to Haifa. The first truckwas destroyed, which set off a domino effect of explosions through the convoy. Zippora was asleep next to the window the 2nd floor of an apartment about 50m away. The windows shattered from the first explosion and glass fell onher and caused her to slowly bleed. Girshon (Murrey's brother) tried to get a taxi to take her to the hospital (15 mins drive), but no taxi driver would travel through the skirmishes that had broken out between the arabs and theIsraeli army. After 3 hours a taxi finally took them to the hospital (a few bullets were shot at the taxi?). Unfortunately, Zippora was dead on arrival.

Zippora is buried in the old cemetery in Haifa near the memorials of those who died in the sinking of the Patria (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster)

-as related to me by my father (Dov Shalav) after conversations with Sarah Leisner (June 2009)

Note: the date is more likely to be 17 March 1948...

from Benny Morris, 'The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited', Cambridge University Press, 2004, p.106.

"...On 17 March, the Haganah ambushed an Arab arms convoy, accompanied by Arab Legion vehicles, from Lebanon near Kiryat Motzkin, blowing up two of the trucks. Among the dozen Arabs killed (and two Britons working for the Arabs) was Muhamad bin Hamad al Huneiti, the Jordanian commander of Haifa’s militia. Two Haganah men were killed and two injured. The ambush, which was followed by a series of sharp Haganah strikes in Haifa itself, severely shook Arab morale..."

-Avi Shalav (June 2009)