Bukstein, Daniel

Son of Rivka and Yaakov, was born on May 26, 2121 in Moscow. When he was two years old, he immigrated to Israel with his parents. He studied in the elementary school of Ahad Ha’am in Tel Aviv and at the Herzlia Gymnasium in 1938. He passed the government examinations, became a technical consultant to the industry, helped run the Technikah and was the director of the Industrial Department of the Eastern Engineering and Supply Company. When he was 16, he joined the ranks of the Haganah and for two years served as an active liaison in the underground. He came to the aid of the attacked village of Yavetz and excelled in discovering mines in the area. In 1942, he volunteered for the British army, completed an aviation course and was awarded the rank of his superiors, He was a lonely Hebrew pilot in the British Air Force in the Middle East, and during his service he accumulated 500 hours of flying, during which he met face to face with the destruction of European Jewry and was shocked to the depths of his soul. A day comes and a young generation that did not know Egypt will rise and build the altar, purify it “I see the vast fields of the Hebrew hand, the working hand, plow them and the kibbutzim and the groups that will reestablish new sprouts of life.” After the end of the war, he stayed on a mission in England to purchase machinery and technical equipment for The Hebrew industry was one of the first ten pilots to enlist in the “Air Service.” Soon he took up the post of commander of the Northern Squadron, which was active in defending the Galilee and Jordan Valley communities on May 10, 1948, volunteering for a special operation In the hills of Jerusalem. His plane crashed with his crew near Saris on the way to Jerusalem. The last broadcast from the plane was “We found the target – – -“. Daniel was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim. A wife named Bruria nee Zlotnik, who five months after his death gave birth to a daughter, Daniela. After his death, he was promoted to the rank of superintendent (lieutenant). The Chief of Staff wrote about him, among other things: “Danny belongs to those who were told: Never in the history of man did so many owe so much debt to so few.”