Dominitz, Yerachmiel

(Who fell with him) and Baruch. He was born in the city of Slutsk in White Russia on 26.4.1923, and at the age of two and a half his family immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, and after a few months moved to live in the Arab city of Akko. Construction in the Jezreel Valley At the outbreak of the 1929 riots, the family left for settlement in the village of Giv’atun, near Rehovot. Yerachmiel began studying at the education center of the Workers Stream and joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In the school they earned him the values ​​of the labor movement and the importance of manual labor in building the country. When he returned from school, after a long school day, he joined his father and gave a helping hand in all the farm jobs, in the orchard, in the vegetable garden, in the chicken coop and in the cowshed. Yerachmiel was an excellent student, alert and industrious. Literary tendencies were discovered and he wrote many stories and poems. No painting drew his hand. When he reached the age of 14 and after graduating from elementary school, he was hired to work in the “Jafora” factory. After working hours, he continued to study evening classes on behalf of Hanoar Haoved. During the 1936-1939 riots Yerachmiel joined the Haganah in his village. He learned Morse and a signal of flags, and thus he moved between Kfar Gibton and the nearby settlements of Givat Brenner and the Shiller group. Together with his fellow youth in the village, Yerachmiel traveled around the country and was close to the land of the land he loved with all his soul. On the night of 9 February 1939, a rioter attack was carried out on the village of Kfar Gvatun, where the family of the Dominitz family, who was in the row of extremist houses in the village, not far from the fields of the Arab village of Zarnoga, And the eldest sister Hadassah were hospitalized at Hadassah Hospital in Tel Aviv, while Yerachmiel was on guard at the public house in the village, and the rioters managed to penetrate the house, killing the mother and brother Emanuel, and the brother Chaim was kidnapped and Yerachmiel heard the shots and screams. He fought the murderers, beat them in a rage, but was shot and seriously wounded in the stomach. Yerachmiel was rushed to Hadassah Hospital where he fought for four days, and Yerachmiel died on March 4, 1939, and was brought to rest at his mother’s and his brother’s place in the Rehovot cemetery. On the first anniversary of the fall, Moshav Gvaton published a booklet in his memory and in memory of his mother and his brothers, including memorial notes and lists of friends and acquaintances, and a list was published in their memory in the booklet “Talmim”, volume 2,