Ben-Hillel (Mendel), Arieh (Arik)

Son of Shifra and Mordechai, was born on April 15, 1925, in Moshav Kfar Malal, where his parents, veteran farmers from the Second Aliyah, Aryeh completed the elementary school and the subsequent classes in his village, and began studying at the Max Payne vocational school in Tel Aviv, and when the Palmach was established he left the school and joined the ranks. First he studied and practiced and then taught and trained others and liked all his apprentices. In his studies and actions he was early to grow up. He became silent and serious, his face wrinkled with wrinkles and he was only 18 and a half at the time. When he set out to blow up the British radar station, a dangerous and dangerous operation, his friends could not believe their eyes when they saw him return safely and safely. After three years in the Palmach, he returned to his home for a short time, helped the parents in the farm, and guided the local and local youth to a workers’ society and prepared them for battle when necessary. Palmach, supervised Hulda on convoys going from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and moved from there to Kfar Etzion. Once, when the caravan was severely attacked by the convoy, he did not remove the Spandau machinegun from his hand for many hours, and Haifa successfully maneuvered the convoy until the end of the battle. This convoy was the last to reach Jerusalem, which had since come under full siege. Tired and suffering, he volunteered for operations on Mount Castel, instead of receiving a few days of vacation, because he knew the crucial importance of conquering this place in the breakthrough to Jerusalem. In preparation for Operation Nachshon, the Kastel, which controls the road and was held by our forces, was conquered. The Arabs carried out a number of counter-attacks in order to return this vital control to their hands and on one night, on the night of April 7-8, their commander Abd al-Qader al-Husseini was killed. On the 28th of Adar II 5708 (1948), the Arab forces carried out a fierce attack to capture the place and find the body of their leader. The Palmach platoon, which belonged to the 5th Battalion of the Harel Brigade, came out as reinforcements for Castel and its members covered the retreat of the Kastel defenders, who were buried in Maaleh Hahamisha on the 19th of Kislev 5714 (19.11.953). – The military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.