Bodo, Joseph-Tzav
The only son of Miriam and Imra was born in 1928 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. His father was a post clerk and his parents were very devoted to his education. During the Second World War he was taken to a concentration camp with his mother, where they separated and his mother died in the camp (his father survived). After many incarnations and hardships, he succeeded in immigrating to Eretz Israel. He arrived at Kibbutz Dorot in the south, where he joined a core group of the Habonim youth movement who went to a training program in Kfar Giladi and from there to Beit Ha’emek in the Western Galilee. In Kfar Giladi he worked in the vineyard and adapted himself to this work. Despite the hardships he had endured, there was something childish about him that did not ripen. But when he was assigned a task, he was obedient, brave, and adjusted to every situation. One day, when he came down with his friends to the vineyard with weapons in his hand, he encountered British soldiers crossing the road. Joseph did not lose his temper and passed through safely. He served in the Carmeli Brigade and participated in the first battles in the Galilee and Mishmar Hayarden, was wounded during the battles and on 4 Sivan, June 11, 1948, died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.
