‘Like a treasure map’ – IDF locates grave of Jewish soldier killed in Cyprus in 1948...

Shlomo Haimson was killed by British guards in Cyprus in 1948, just days after the birth of his daughter. For decades, his burial place remained unknown.

A four-year Israeli investigation uncovered clues including five surviving fragments of an old cemetery map. Investigators reconstructed the original layout of a cemetery transferred from Cyprus to Haifa and identified Haimson’s grave using inscriptions and a sequence of names.