Atlas, Haim (“Haimka”)

Son of Yitzhak and Pepi. He was born on January 30, 1929 in Poland. He was five years old when he and his parents immigrated to Israel; The family settled in Givat Hashlosha. After graduating from elementary school, he continued his high school studies for three years, at the regional school near Givat Hashlosha, and for a fourth and final year at the Ein Harod school. He excelled in his studies and was also the living spirit in the students’ society. During his studies he entered the farm and in the last year of his studies he entered as a permanent worker for the orchards, orchards and fruit trees. He studied the packing of citrus fruits and soon headed the pack. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, when the Iraqis sat at the top of the eye and later fortified themselves in the fortress of Antipater, he stood with the other grown-ups in the fields of Nazla, which were then a front line in the defense of the region. After the conquest of Rosh Ha’ayin, he enlisted in the Palmach and in the Harel Brigade participated in all the battles in the Jerusalem corridor and later in the Negev, and at the request of the kibbutz he received a vacation before his discharge from the army to organize the picking and packing. The orchard center and the fruit orchard, the more the groves expanded, the more he became aware of the field and even devoted himself to economic matters in general.In that period he married and established his private home on Givat Hashlosha, and his hut was one of the first in the new farm. And the member of the secretariat, and two years later in this role he devoted himself to helping with training and organization in the Yad Hannah School After a while, the kibbutz secretariat demanded that he go to the training center or to the “Hanoar Haoved” center, and he began to prepare for his high-level training in agriculture, when he arrived at the entrance to Nitzana as an appendix to the tour , And on the following day, on the 16th of Mershvan 5710 (October 21, 1956), on his way back to Nitzana from our foreign outpost, after checking a minefield, his car was found on a mine, and he died in the cemetery in Einat, whose parents After his death he was promoted to lieutenant. Lt. Gen. Zivi Zafriri (who fell in the Sinai battle about ten days later) took his leave on behalf of the Israel Defense Forces with the stampede of standing up for his qualities as a soldier. Kibbutz Einat published a booklet entitled “Haimka-Zwei” (in memory of Zivi Zafriri, an orange year).