Elberg, Shalom (Sigmund)

Was born on February 28, 1929, in the city of Czernowitz, the capital of Bukovina, Romania. In 1947, at the age of 18, he arrived in the Land of Israel. Until his enlistment, he lived in Tel Aviv and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. During the “Horev” operation, a “liquidation” operation was carried out for the liquidation of the “Falluja Pocket”, in which Nasserah was an Egyptian brigade. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered and attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force remained trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 26th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948) and was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.