Armon (Kestenbaum), Alexander (“Alex”)

Son of Rafael and Sima. Was born in the city of Radom in Poland on March 31, 1941. The family was in a German labor camp during the Holocaust and after the war settled in Lodz, but in 1950 the family came to Israel, General elementary school In Israel he studied at an agricultural school in Magdiel and studied seventh-twelfth grade in high school in Gan Shmuel. He soon became absorbed among the kibbutz children, integrated into their lives and stood out in the realist field of study. He worked in photography and studied a lot of professional literature on aviation. He worked in building and flying airplanes and also taught in the aviation department at the educational institution. From there he went to the Air Force’s Dyeing Course and also took a course in motor flight, while he loved to read science books based on his imagination and was inclined to listen to Balkan folk music and collected records from all the Balkan countries, He was drafted into the IDF in July 1959 and volunteered for the air force, and after returning to Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, he was called up for reserve duty and was assigned to reserve duty in full responsibility for his agriculture and society. He always took care of his duty regularly, and during his service in the squadron he served as a training officer, collected a lot of material and arranged for him to be concentrated in a book On the first day of the Six-Day War, on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (June 5, 1967), following an attack on an Egyptian airfield, Alexander took part in that battle as a captain, On the first anniversary of Alexander’s death, on June 5, 1968, a ceremony was held in Gan Shmuel near Beit Ha’am to mark the unveiling of a monument in his memory. – Yad Gan Shmuel, by the artist Yigal Tumarkin, with the assistance of the Department of Commemoration of the Soldier of the Ministry of Defense. Book 53 “of them” published by Kibbutz Artzi in memory of his comrades who fell in the campaign, was dedicated page history. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.