Blinkov, Amiram

Son of Chaya and Chaim. He was born in 1924 in the Kinneret colony. On February 22, 1946, Amiram participated in the Haganah attack on the British military camp in Sarona near Tel Aviv. The attack was part of a series of protests against the closure of the country’s gates to Jewish immigrants. Amiram’s squad continued to advance despite the cross fire, broke through the fence and managed to hit several installations. At dawn the fighting stopped and the class began to retreat. An examination revealed that one of the fighters remained in the area. Amiram returned to the open space, which is visible to the British, in order to remove his friend, who was lying dead. He reached him, raised his hands, and began to crawl toward the hiding place. The British soldiers discovered what had happened and opened fire on Amiram and hit him. He was 22 when he died. He was laid to rest at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv. His memory was immortalized, many years later, together with the names of the members of the underground movements who had been active and had fallen before the establishment of the State of Israel, on a marble slab at Yad Labanim in Tel Aviv.