Danin, Zechariah

Son of Sarah and Moshe. Was born in 1918 in Yemen and immigrated with his family to Palestine when he was twelve years old. In Israel he immediately went to work to help support the family. In the days he was a worker in the transportation cooperative “South Judea” and in the evenings completed his studies at the school in Rishon Letzion. After a while, the father of the family succeeded in fulfilling his long-cherished ambition to establish an agricultural farm for himself. For this purpose he moved to the Hefer Valley. Although he was admired by his employers and colleagues, he gave up his job and joined his family, who were the first of the founders of Moshav Eliashiv. During his service as a guard, he often encountered Arab rioters who stole from Hebrew interfaces, burned fields of grain, detonated electricity poles, and set up ambushes for the residents of the settlements. On one occasion Eliashiv was attacked and the defenders, who were few, contacted their friends in Givat Haim. Another time, Zechariah aided in the escape of a gang of rioters who set up an ambush near Nahal Alexander. The commander of the gang decided that Zachariah should be killed and an Arab friend of the family who wanted to save him from death asked Zechariah’s father to influence him to stop his activity in the area. But he and his father did not respond to the request and the activity continued. One of Eliashiv’s wives was about to give birth when her husband was out of the house and then Zechariah mounted his horse in a deserted area full of enemies to bring the obstetrician to the moshav. Despite this great activity in the defense of the Yishuv. On 15 July 1944, he was hit by a military vehicle and was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the Moshav Eliashiv cemetery. He left a wife and two daughters, parents, two brothers and two sisters.