Capon, Haim
Son of Sara and Shlomo, was born on December 10, 1915, in the city of Salonika, Greece, where he studied in an elementary school and was a Zionist from his youth: On 25.5.1933 he immigrated to Israel as a tourist and stayed in Tel Aviv. In April 1948, he served as a cook in the “Kelt” camp in Kiryat Meir and was transferred to serve in the Carmeli Brigade in Haifa and Rosh Pina, where he was courageously discovered in the many battles he participated in. , Including Operation Brosh, the attempt to destroy the Syrian bridgehead in the Mishmar Hayarden region, and fell in battle on Tuesday, July 10, 1948, in Um-al-Tuna. According to his friends, he was hit by a mortar shell. Was the last remnant of a family that had been annihilated by the Nazis during the Holocaust of European Jewry. Was brought to rest in a grave with other victims of the difficult battle, in the military cemetery in Rosh Pina. He left behind a wife, Miriam.