Appelbaum, Shlomo

Son of Bracha and Yosef, was born in 1928 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Tachkemoni School and at the Montefiore Technical School. At first he worked in the Tel Aviv municipality, then spent a year of service in the Galilee settlements and returned from there. He no longer wanted bureaucrats, but chose a workshop in the factory and became a good worker. From his youth, he was a member of the Haganah, participated in the “Wingate Night” activities and was responsible for all that was imposed on him. He was a humble man, faithful to himself, to man, to people, and to God. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he fulfilled his obligation to defend Tel Aviv and its suburbs; He underwent a course for instructors and sabotage officers, was transferred to escort convoys and participated in battles around Jerusalem and the Negev. Three days before he fell, he was the deputy commander of the operation and was responsible for sabotaging a landing operation on the coast of Ashdod, in order to blow up an Egyptian artillery battery between Ashdod and Nitzanim, thereby helping to break through the Negev. On the 16th of Tishrei, 5709 (19.10.1948), he fell during the occupation of Hulikat during the “Yoav” operation to break into the Negev and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.