Dahan, Zamir

Son of Shifra and Meir, was born on the 15th of Cheshvan 5661 (15.11.1930) in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. His parents were from the country who went on pilgrimage to Egypt. Their home was a Zionist home and its mother tongue was Hebrew. Zamir took in the atmosphere of Eretz Israel in his home and spent his holidays in Israel. When he was seven years old, he joined the “Young Hebrew” youth movement. He studied French and Arabic, and in 1942 immigrated with his parents and sister to Israel. His parents settled in the Kinneret group and Zamir attended the Degania joint school, where he completed his studies and moved to the agricultural school at Beit Yerah. He liked to paint and listen to music, worked in a vineyard, in a cowshed, in a chicken coop, and in fodder. While at school he was trained in the Haganah and underwent a post-mail therapy course. As the War of Independence approached, he joined the Palmach in the framework of the Golani Brigade, and during the outbreak of the battles he participated in the battles of Zemah, Tiberias and its surroundings, Gesher and Arab al-Zabah, and the Syrians invaded the Jordan Valley on May 16, 1948, On May 18, the Syrians launched an attack on a plantation with the help of artillery and tanks, and our forces did not withstand the intensity of the Syrian attack, first the town of Tzemah and finally the police station, and the defenders retreated under Syrian fire towards Degania. (May 18, 1948) and was brought to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in Degania Aleph.