Baruch, Shabbat

Son of Regina and Moshe, was born in 1930 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He went to elementary school and his Hebrew education he aquired in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Despite his youth, he was an expert dental technician. The destruction of European Jewry and the struggle of the Yishuv over his freedom influenced him, and he waited impatiently for the hour to immigrate to Israel and fight the war of liberation. With the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, he managed to reach the shores of the country, immediately enlisted in the newly formed Brigade 7 and took part in Operation Ben-Nun Bet, the second attack on the Latrun area, where the unit was tasked with attacking the village of Deir Ayub. In this battle he fell on the 22nd of Iyar, May 31, 1948, only two weeks after he had been on the homeland. On the 11th of Adar 5702 (28.2.1950) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.