Beckman, Dan-Nehemiah

Son of Bracha and Menahem, was born in 1918 in the city of Radom, Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1926. He studied at Yeshivah in Jerusalem. In the 1936 riots, Dan-Nehemiah sustained minor wounds in the Haganah positions on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border. At the beginning of World War II, he enlisted in the British Army, served in the Artillery Corps and later moved to the Jewish Brigade. Dan-Nehemiah participated actively in saving the remnants of European Jewry. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he came to the defense of his place of residence – the “Hamapadah” neighborhood near Ramat Gan. Upon the establishment of the artillery unit in the IDF, he joined it, participated in battles near Mishmar Hayarden, the Jordan Valley, near Lagoon, etc. On the day of the conquest of Nazareth, Dan-Nehemiah was injured in a road accident and three weeks later, on 28 Tamuz 5708, August 4, 1948, died of his wounds and was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Nachalat Yitzhak, leaving a wife, Rachel, two sons and two daughters; his youngest son was born four months after his fall.