Barsh, Isaac
Son of Yocheved and Ephraim. He was born on March 15, 1918 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, to a Zionist family, and his grandfather, Rabbi Shalom Barash, visited Israel and wanted to build an iron casting factory there, A year after the birth of Yitzhak, the family returned from Russia to Volkovysk, his father’s hometown, where Barash was steeped in culture and a Zionist atmosphere, the father was the chairman of the Zionist Organization in the city and the son joined at a young age He moved to the Betar youth movement and was active in the local branch until his immigration to Eretz Israel, where he immigrated to Israel in 1935 as a chemistry student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Corps of study, but after the outbreak of the riots Trtz”o left the classroom and enlisted in maintaining the vineyards of Zichron Yaacov. At the same time, he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and in its ranks stood out first as a corporal and later as a commander, with courage, vigor and initiative. In Jerusalem, there were also EL AL operators, a student association of the Hebrew University. At the end of 1938 an Irgun school for aviation was opened in Lod. Yitzhak was one of the first to join this school. Was the outstanding trainee in the course and holder of the No. 1 flight license in Mandatory Palestine. He was later among the founders of the National Club for Hebrew pilots and was sent on his behalf to Europe to raise money for the development of the pilot in Israel. At the outbreak of World War II he wanted to enlist in the British army as a pilot. He was rejected and then enlisted in the infantry company of the Bafs, and within a few months he was promoted to corporal. At the age of 26 he was attacked by a malignant disease and after five months of severe suffering, he died on the 11th of Cheshvan 5705 (October 28, 1944). He was buried on the Mount of Olives during a military ceremony. He left a wife, Rachel, of a noble family from Germany, to whom he had been married for two years. The newspapers Davar and the Observer published lists about his character and his way.
