Bain, Eli

Born on Wednesday Tammuz Trf”d (07/06/1924) in Vienna, capital of Austria. At age 15 he was brought down from Austria in the “Youth Aliyah” and studied at Kibbutz Beit Zera. The past has not had much to tell his friends that his eyes were riveted to the future life His father died of Nazi persecution and his sister was raped and killed by German soldiers Ali served for a year as a guard and later joined the British navy with the desire to avenge the revenge of his father and sister. He joined the Haganah and participated diligently in training, and in early December 1947 volunteered for service in the Palmach, Protect the Hatikvah neighborhood and the borders of Tel Aviv and escort convoys to Jerusalem. “If Avi and sister could see how we are finally fighting for our land and our independence,” he said before leaving for his last post. On the 28th of Adar 2, 5708 (31.3.1948), when a caravan convoy was on its way to Jerusalem from the mud near Hulda, he volunteered with his friends to climb the nearby hills for cover, and then volunteered with three friends to stay in place to protect an armored vehicle Wounded comrades who could not be rescued and where he was killed Ali was brought to rest in the cemetery in Hulda.