Bialik, Ben-Zion
Son of Rivka and Elimelech, was born on 29.7.1927 in Tel Aviv. From childhood, he experienced and overcome various diseases. son of-Zion studied at the BILU religious school and at the Moriah Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, where he moved to the “Shevach” vocational vocational school and was a member and instructor of the Religious Scouts Movement He joined the marine department of the religious sports association “Elitzur” and also served as a counselor after he successfully completed a course for instructors, and as a teenager he remained faithful to the values of tradition that he absorbed in the schools and in his parents’ home. Which was imposed on him and performed it consistently and quietly, without hesitation, and began his service to the homeland in the Gadna and continued with the Hagai. son of-Zion responded to every call and filled every command in the Haganah underground for the purpose of raising the Ma’apilim, liaison and guards against British oppression and actions against the ” As he was ordered to do, at the beginning of the War of Independence he served in the Givati Brigade and was in double jeopardy, on the part of the Arabs and the British, guarding the Abu Kabir-Givat Herzl-Hatikva neighborhood, Only his parents would tell – first by Lev, when he was kidnapped at home, and then in short letters – about his convenient service in quiet and safe places The best food and to reassure them. In the middle of January 1948, the unit was sent to Jerusalem as a backup force and spent two and a half months defending the besieged Mekor Hayyim neighborhood and raids on the nearby village of Beit Safafa, blowing up rioters’ belongings and attacking their concentrations. On May 12, 1948, he was sent with his unit as a reinforcement to a Palmach unit near Shaar Hagai, which fought in the “Maccabi” operation to break through the road to Jerusalem. After they managed to repel a number of assaults on Block 7 (opposite the lower pumps) When he reached the range of grenades, son of-Zion threw a grenade at the enemy but was hit by a bullet in the face and was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, but the operation failed and the next day, on May 14, 1948, he died of his wounds and was brought to rest at home – The cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem.
