Avidav, Eitan

Son of Nessia and Jacob. He was born on 20/9/1925 in Ein Harod, and his father Ya’akov (Yani) Avidav was one of the leaders and activists of the illegal immigration movement, and three years later the family moved to Nahalal. In the early years of the Second World War, the eldest brother Dov joined the Jewish Brigade in the British Army, and the youngest Eitan was next to him. The father’s right-hand man, and the father joined the Diaspora and Eitan remained in the kibbutz, working in it and also in charge of its management and advancement. He also takes advantage of the opportunity to participate in the seminar at Beit Rothenberg on Mount Carmel and hears Torah from Berl Katznelson, the spiritual leader of the Labor movement, after which he wishes to enlist in the British army after years of his years, Golomb, the central figure of the Haganah, soon became prominent in his activities in the Haganah, and built, among other things, his father’s farm, a slick in which he also serves as a storekeeper. A meeting with him on the street in Tel Aviv at the same time: “I remained surprised by the unexpected meeting and especially the expression of Eitan’s face, tall, sturdy, his eyes bright and a smile A child on his lips. With unabashed excitement, he said: ‘I have achieved what I want, at last I’m going to do something too. Eitan was sent to Europe to the Wiesenhof camp near Innsbruck, Austria, a camp of the “Bericha” of the Haganah, which tried to prevent the transfer of transports outside the authority of the Jewish Agency and its institutions. A group of people belonging to the Revisionist movement was arrested and interrogated, and this was the background to the attempt by a group of the Irgun to occupy the Bericha transit camp and take control of the point that disturbed its actions on the border. On the 27th of Tishrei 5708 (27.9.1947), about 100 Etzel members broke into the camp near Innsbruck, and Eitan Avidov, Eitan’s father, came to the scene of the disaster. And the continuation of the work The coffin arrived in Haifa on an Italian ship on the 17th of Cheshvan 5707 (October 17, 1947), and thousands of Haganah members accompanied Eitan on his last journey. He was buried in Givat Shimron in Nahalal, and he is 22 years old. Articles in his memory and things in the book “Asher Shechlanu” in memory of the sons of Nahalal.