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Davidai, Alexander

Davidai, Alexander


Son of Bracha and Yehuda, was born on July 10, 1925, in the Ginegar group in the Jezreel Valley. His birth and growth were within the family of the group. Alexander was a man of nature and work, a shepherd and a shepherd, who was raised for his role by his father, the old shepherd. In all his capillaries he was bound to his flank and the fields, and healed every sick, limping sheep. He was active and a youth counselor in the city and in the village. Commander and instructor in the Gadna in the Jezreel region and Ephraim and Mim. Taken from the care of the sheep, he fulfilled all his duties as a commander in the army with love and anxiety, devotion and loyalty. A few months after his marriage he was called into service. On September 19, 1948, he fell near the Arab village of Kofrin in the Ephraim Mountains, and was brought to rest in the cemetery at Ginegar. Left a wife and child. The hill that fell on it is now named after him: Giv’at Eli.

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