Akerman, Yosef

Son of Frida-Yehudit and Menachem-Mendel was born in Hanukkah in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, to an ultra-Orthodox family.In 1925, at the age of six, his parents immigrated to Israel. After completing his elementary studies, which he successfully completed with distinction, he chose the job. And so he said to his father: “They taught me, Father, ‘it will come to you like it will eat, and it is good for you.'” He studied electrical engineering and worked on it in the days and evenings, and at night he studied in order to satisfy his thirst for general information. Due to the lack of material and lack of work, which forced him out of the way, he went to the village and tried to do agricultural work. Joseph was deeply impressed by the tranquility of the man of the land and decided to move to agriculture, to agricultural-religious settlement. In order to implement this plan, Jerusalem returned to liquidate its affairs, but in the meantime the War of Independence broke out. These were the first days after the UN decision to partition the country and he joined the defenders, and when reinforcements were needed for the besieged Gush Etzion, he volunteered to leave despite being ill, and as a kind man, Among the defenders of Kfar Etzion, and on the day of the fall of the village, on the 4th of Iyar 5708 (May 13, 1948), he was also a fallen soldier. On the fifteenth day of Merhaven 5710 (17.11.1949), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.