Ben-Zur (Kaminsky) and Nahum

Son of Leah (Leoni) and Shmuel Mordechai, was born on September 13, 1925 in Berlin, the capital of Germany. In April 1932, about a year before the Nazis came to power, he immigrated to Israel with his parents. In Israel he graduated from the elementary school in Kfar Sava. Worked briefly in his father’s farm and began to study diamond polishing in Netanya. After a short period of time, he established a cooperative with a number of friends in this profession in Kfar Sava and worked there until he joined the army. He was a member of Maccabi, was interested in sports and especially in soccer, and was a favorite of his friends. When the War of Independence broke out, he joined the “Alexandroni” Brigade, joined the Hish Company in Kfar Sava and trained there, and with his company, he took part in the conquest of the Tel Litvinsky camp. 25.5.1948, Operation son of-Nun A, in which his battalion was tasked with capturing Latrun, the attacking force encountered better enemy forces and was forced to retreat, and on the 16th of Iyar 5708 (May 26, 1948) On November 17, 1949, he was transferred, along with his friends who had fallen in the attack on Latrun, to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.