Eiferman, Yaakov (Gerd)

Son of Helena and customs, was born on the eighth Bayer Atartz (25/04/1931) in Essen on the Ruhr River in Germany. In 1936, at the age of four and a half, the family immigrated to Israel. The studies began in the vineyard Jerusalem and Pardes Hanna successor. Where he graduated from the elementary school, spent a short time in the kibbutz and went to study carpentry at the “Amal” school in Hadera, where he was a member of Hanoar Haoved, and later joined together with his friends in the Gadna. He was appointed commander of a squad and soon rose to rank. There was also a guide at the branch of the airport club established in Pardes Hanna. His ambition was to join a settlement group after graduating and to become a kibbutz member. He called a group that was preparing to go to training in Geva, but when he joined the army, he parted from her. Jacob was gifted with intelligence and had a penchant for painting and workmanship. He was very honest and modest, an excellent swimmer, but even when he won the competition, he would not have highlighted his excellence. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he took part in the battle a few days after he was 17 years old and went on to the course of squadrons, and was sent to the Tel-Litvinsky, where he took part in a course for commanders armor and fought in surrounding villages. when he heard that his core division “open” are Zrifin asked to join them and his wish was fulfilled. with the resumption of hostilities at the end of the first truce division participates in operation “Dani” and the night of 17-18 July 1948, prior to the start of the second truce, seized battalion ” Valley “and Shilta and controlled the eastern part of the Corcour ridge to threaten the flank of Ma And the Legion in Latrun, where it was discovered that the Legion force was holding the western part of the ridge, and the enemy attacked the force from two sides with armored vehicles and was forced to withdraw. “a Tammuz Independence (07.18.1948.) in his last moments was still trying to save his friend’s injury. on Thursday, the Declaration Bader (28/02/1950), was laid to rest-rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In Pardes Hanna, in the Megged neighborhood near his parents’ home, a garden was planted on a high hill in memory of his friends who fell with him and the memory of five scouts who fell in Bir-Burin on March 1, 1949. The garden was planted by relatives of the fallen.