Ben-Ze’ev (Wolpert), Yoel

Son of-Masha and Moshe was born on July 24, 1962, in the city of Libawa, Latvia, and in 1925 immigrated to Eretz Israel with his parents, where he graduated from the elementary school in Kfar Sava and studied at the agricultural high school in Pardes Hannah. He joined the Betar movement and was once suspected of stealing a rifle for the Irgun, and later joined the Irgun and was active in it. In 1941 he volunteered for the British army to fight the Nazi enemy. While parking his battalion in North Africa, he demanded – in vain – to transfer him to a parachute unit, because he was thirsty for action. In Italy, he was transferred to the position of a half-track driver in an auxiliary company, and when the Jewish Brigade was sent to the front he was placed in a heavy machine-gun unit, which was too “rear” for him and when his repeated demands to move him to a forward unit were disbanded, When he was discharged from the army, he joined the Naftali cooperative in Binyamina, and although she became involved in civil life as a married man and had two children and was very devoted to his family, he did not draw the attention of his family. His hand from the task of liberating the homeland from foreign rule, and when he was gone There is relief roles assigned to it in the underground Irgun (which served as “a group leader Uzi”), demanded and demanded “employment” and was her faith and devotion day and night. Recently he left Binyamina to participate as an armored driver in the Irgun’s campaign to conquer Jaffa, and was seriously injured in the attack on an Arab post in Manshiyya, where he died unconscious on the day of 10 Nissan 5708 (1948). Yoel was laid to rest in the Kfar Saba military cemetery.