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Akerman, Yechezkel (Hezeko)

Akerman, Yechezkel (Hezeko)


Son of Hannah and Shalom, was born on November 11, 1928 in Lima, the capital of Peru, in South America, where his parents lived for a while. The family returned to Israel on February 14, 1932, and the child grew up as a “sabra” from their belly. He studied at the elementary school in Kfar Sava and in grades 9-12. Afterward, he attended the “New High School” high school in Tel Aviv. He was an active member of Hanoar Haoved, joined the Haganah and went on training with a group of young people. When he returned home, he studied at the Teachers’ Seminary of the Workers Stream in Tel Aviv. When the British search for weapons began at Ramat Hakovesh, Shefayim and Givat Haim came out again and took part in the protest and resistance activities. In September 1947 he completed his training and joined the “Hachushalim” group in Jib-Yosef, where he worked in a yard, yard, and tractor and loved his work in the kibbutz, and wrote home: “It was a wonderful feeling to be a partner in the settlement of the Beaver and the Creator.” He had a penchant for poetry, and as a child he composed compositions in rhymes, leaving many poems and compositions, and with the outbreak of the War of Independence he went to work in fortifications in Dan, (19.7.1948) was killed in a road accident on his way from Mishmar Hayarden to Rosh Pina and was taken to rest in the Kfar Saba military cemetery. Year old when he was 14, was found written: “As if Israel has to be ready one day bring her son killed.”

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