Esther Cailingold, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEsther Cailingold
haganah member
Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1925
Place of Birth: Whitechapel, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 29-May-1948
Profession: musician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Esther Cailingold
- Esther Cailingold (1925–1948) was a British-born schoolteacher of Polish extraction, who fought with the Jewish forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and died of wounds received in the battle for the Old City of Jerusalem.
- She is commemorated, in Israel, by the Esther Cailingold memorial forest at Kibbutz Lavi in the Lower Galilee, by a scholarship fund at Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem, and on various war memorials including that of the Israeli Armored Corps at Latrun.
- Several libraries and other rooms in children's homes in Israel are named after her.
- In England she is remembered through the Esther Cailingold society in North London, part of Emunah UK, a worldwide Jewish children's welfare charity.
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