Adir, Aryeh (Erich)

Son of Esther and Zvi, was born on September 11, 1930 in Jerusalem, and moved with his family to the Borochov neighborhood. His father was a pioneer and his mother a kindergarten teacher, and the boy grew up in an atmosphere of recognition and national responsibility. Aryeh was a member of the Haganah from his childhood, and even when he was a student in the school, he went on training and did many days there. When the War of Independence broke out, he was a seventh-grader in the Tel Aviv high school and was exempted from serving in combat units because of his youth, but his Lev did not allow him to sit on the bench while the Galilee was in the hands of the enemy. Without revealing his true age and serving in the First Battalion of the Yiftah Brigade, on the night of May 14-15, 1948, his battalion captured its kings in order to advance the invasion of the Lebanese army. The force, which did not manage to get organized and dig in, was forced to withdraw. In this battle he fell when he tried, according to the testimony of his comrades, to take out the weapon he was in charge of as a squad commander. He was buried in Tel-Yosef and on the 27th of Av 5710 (27.7.1950) he was put to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.