Cohen, Michael (Michik)
Son of Miriam and David, was born on October 31, 1930, in Rehovot to an old family of the first descendants who settled in the village of Giv’aton, where he studied in the elementary school in Rehovot from the first grade through the tenth grade. And his self without compromises and compromises even towards the educators, and before he finished tenth grade he began to work in repair and repair of vehicles in a workshop in Rehovot and in the afternoon and evening hours he forgot his fatigue and helped his parents with the farm. . From work he ran to the aid of the illegal immigrant ship Shabtai Lozinski on the Nitzanim beach. He was arrested among the sabras who intervened among the immigrants. He fought fiercely with the British on the beach and on the ship, where he also tasted the gas war. About this affair in his life he left behind a memoir). He joined the Mahanot Ha’olim and Hashomer Hatzair movements, and against the will of the parents he went to a training program in Hulata. When he returned he continued to work in the streets, and his ambition was to reach his own agriculture. From the beginning of the War of Independence he served in the Hagash Battalion and took part in all his battles and activities in the south: in the village of Uriya, Beit Dagon, Latrun, Tsrifin, Gezer, the Radar, the big blast in Yazur, the big house near Ramle, the big house in Tel Arish. He was prepared to try to return him to the defense of his village, saying that the whole land of our homeland and the good young forces were everywhere, yet he prepared his mother to accept whatever might happen to a combatant like him. When a member of his place, the brother of one of the fallen soldiers, was sent to a dangerous mission, he jumped in and volunteered for him. Former members are nearby training Palmach Brigade’s Battalion “open”, defected to the battalion before the swearing-in, received their ranks and fought with them in battle Operation “Dani”. On the 12th of Tammuz 5708 (July 12, 1948), when two small armored vehicles appeared on the street in Lod, the next day, when the soldiers were already aiming their guns at them, they saw that they were the enemy’s armored vehicles. Until he fell in. A monument to him was erected at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and for the last time with his friends he prophesied: “I will not return from this battle.” Space is a macaloon – a space whose burial place is unknown.
