Broder, Dov (Berla)

Son of Esther and Elazar, was born in 1927 in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania. When he was seven years old, and he was a very weak and sickly child, the parents went to Eretz Israel, to Jerusalem, where the boy recovered and was vaccinated. He graduated from the “Geula” elementary school in Jerusalem and moved to the “Amal” vocational school. A year later, in 1945, he and his group “Young Gordonia” went out as a training nucleus in the “Ma’apilim” group in Atlit and became a fisherman. He joined the Palmach and briefly joined the Palmach. He took part in daring operations – purchasing weapons and ammunition from British railroad cars, transporting and smuggling illegal immigrants, blowing up a police boat in the Haifa port, and more. The nucleus of the hachshara was dispersed. Dov returned to Jerusalem, studied driving, bought a pickup truck and began working on his own. That year he married a wife. At the end of 1947 he moved to Netanya. He was fond of all his knowledge and was known for all kinds of nicknames, such as “the guy with the truck,” “the devoted son,” “the faithful husband,” “the gentle lady,” etc. At the outbreak of the Independence War he joined the Alexandroni Brigade and fought in the Kfar Saba area. He was killed in the fighting in the Arab village of Kfar Sava on May 19, 1948. The rumor was that he was sitting in a armored vehicle that was hit by an anti-tank shell and went up in flames. In the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, the space is a macaroni – a space whose burial place is unknown.