Epstein, Zvi (Zvika)

Ben Ester and Leo, was born on the 28th of Iyar, 1929 in the city of Breslau, Germany. Immigrated to Israel in 1933. In Israel he graduated from the elementary school in Kiryat Haim and began working in the “Ata” factory in order to acquire the profession of weaving. Become an experienced worker. A member of the Gadna youth movement and a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement, he demanded that the owners of the factory be allowed to enlist despite being too young – and on 25 December 1947 Zvika enlisted in the army, In the battle of Tamra, Balad a-Sheikh, in the explosion of bridges on the border, in Sasa, in the first battle to protect Yehiam, around Hanita and Rosh Hanikra On 27 March 1948, at noon, a convoy of seven vehicles left Nahariya And 90 people to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle, among them Zvi. He was laid to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in Nahariya.