Confino, Gavriel

Son of Sol and Bechor. He was born in 1914 in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1936 he immigrated with his friends to Palestine, settled in Tel Aviv, where he worked as a construction worker. After about a year he married and raised a family. When World War II broke out, he was one of the first conscripts to join the British army and was assigned to the cavalry corps. He served in Egypt and there, on the 27th of Nisan, 5702 (April 14, 1942), was killed in a car accident. He was laid to rest at the British military cemetery in Tel el Kabir, Egypt. He left a wife and two daughters, parents and four brothers and sisters. His memory was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists”, 1946. Location of Kibbutz 1010. Pioneer Corps.