Burgin, Yehoshua (Shuka)

Son of Fruma and Ben-Zion, was born on 15.4.1930 in Rehovot to a family of land workers. He spent his childhood in Kfar Havatun. Yehoshua studied at the school in Gan Shlomo (Shvat Shiller). From his childhood he had a tendency to mechanics and when he was twelve he knew how to drive a car. When he finished the vocational school named after Max Payne in Tel Aviv and became a mechanic, he went to work in a car garage. He rejected a proposal to work as an assistant in the store, because he only considered his work and wanted to specialize in it. Yehoshua was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and at a young age joined the Haganah. He served in the Givati ​​Brigade, participated in the defense of Kfar Uriya and accompanied convoys along the Rehovot-Gal-On line. , And because of his quickness as a driver, he once saved a convoy from destruction at Faluja, and was critically injured in the battle at Abu Shusha and transferred to a hospital in Tel Aviv, and three weeks later, on April 24, 1948, To rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot.