Etzioni (Geltzer), Benjamin

Son of David and her ship. He was born on January 27, 1926, in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Ahad Ha’am elementary school and at a young age began writing poetry. He also stood out in his paintings. When he was ten, he joined a pioneering youth movement. After completing his studies at the Shalva Gymnasium, he went to Dafna to train together with his fellow movement members. After a year of training, he worked as an instructor in the framework of his movement in Tel Aviv and regularly participated in the beta. He tied his fate with the first Palmach group, Bet Keshet, which settled in the Lower Galilee in 1944. He was one of the cult workers in the agriculture, and at the same time he continued to write poetry, and in his estate was found a bundle of poems. In the early years of the War of Independence, he was asked to enlist in various activities in the area and was among the first soldiers of the Golani Brigade and the Barak Battalion to participate in many operations and battles in the Jordan Valley, the Lower Galilee and the Rafah area. His battalion and then his brigade, was wounded twice – during an air raid on an army camp and even on the Rafah frontier In 1951, he married and worked in agriculture at Kibbutz Maayan Baruch, and was a member of the “Golani” Brigade. , But from time to time he dealt with security matters in the place, fell in battle near Kibbutz Dan on the fifth day of Hanukkah (December 28, 1951) and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Beit Keshet. In Maayan Baruch a grove was planted in his name by the kibbutz.