Claire, Zvi

Son of Naima and Avraham, was born on 8 August 1930 in Czernowitz, Romania, and immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel in 1934. He received his education in Israel and in Ramat Gan, where he lived, graduated from the Gymnasium. He was also a member of the “Hatzofim” branch in Ramat Gan and one of its activists, and after finishing the matriculation exams at the outbreak of the War of Independence, he immediately enlisted with a group of his friends and moved on to the start of his training in the group From there he was sent to the Negev Brigade of the Palmach and served in Ruhama, Dorot and Nir Am. Zvi participated in a number of operations and the last was Operation “Philist” – the attack on the Egyptian column in Ashdod – when his battalion attacked the southern part of the array. The attacking force encountered heavy enemy fire and had to retreat. In this battle he fell, on the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), while Haifa with his class on the retreat of his department in the light of the rising day. The chief of staff at the time, Yaakov Dori, wrote to the parents: “… without knowing your home personally, I am sure that his high qualities as a guide, a fighter and a Hebrew boy were absorbed in your home. His body was found on November 7, 1949, and was brought to an eternal rest in a mass grave with the bodies of eight of his friends who fell with him in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.In his memory, Zvi “Center, which includes cultural and educational activities and sports and professional.