Dobkin, Gideon
The son-in-law of Jessia and Jacob, was born on the 20th of Tammuz 1929 in Tel Aviv, to an old Zionist family from Russia. He studied at the Tel-Nordoi School in Tel Aviv and at a high school in Ramat Gan, and spent a year at the Naval School in Haifa. From the age of 13 he was a member of the “Ha – Po’el” naval unit. As a member of the Gadna and Haganah, he took part in many activities in transporting illegal immigrants and weapons to the beach, but his enthusiasm and dedicated work in the Yamit diverted him from regular studies and all his dreams were to be a sailor on a Hebrew ship. His base was in Sejera. After completing his service in the Palmach, he boarded the Kedma, where he served as a sailor and even managed to cross the shores of the Mediterranean, and when he returned from this journey he confessed that “there is no view of the world that exceeds the landscape of the Land of Israel.” His commanding officers, who were responsible for his responsibilities, entrusted him with important tasks of transmitting secret and urgent information, and on such an errand, when the motorcycle was forced to deliver information to its headquarters, was killed on Wednesday, July 10, 1948 in Tel Aviv. Gideon was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. Pages in his memory appeared in the book “Out of Our Out” – in memory of the students of the Tel Nordoi School who fell in Israel’s wars, published by the parents of the boys and the Tel Nordoi School, 1965
