Amali (Tikotzky), Yerachmiel (“Milk”),

Yerachmiel (Milk), son of Eliezer and Rachel (Tikotzky) Amali, was born in 1917 in Bialystok, Poland. He immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1938 and was in charge of the Haganah affairs there in Sde Nachum. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and served as a sergeant in the Jewish Brigade. During his service in Europe, he handled Aliyah Bet and arranged for the transfer of She’erit Hapletah to Eretz Yisrael. He liked to listen to the melodies of cantorial music as was the tradition of his parents’ home. Even before the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign, he was drafted with the reservists as the commander of an artillery unit and on
28 Cheshvan, 2.11.1956, he fell in battle in the Gaza Strip. He was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and on 31 March 1957, he was laid to eternal rest in the Hadera cemetery.