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Even-Tov, Isaiah (Shaike)

Even-Tov, Isaiah (Shaike)


The youngest son of his parents Chaim and Masha. He was born on July 15, 1929 in Tel Aviv. His father, who immigrated to Israel with his parents, experienced all sorts of adventures; World War I went through him, he went down to Egypt and from there he returned to Israel, worked in the maintenance and leadership of Diligence. It was a long way from Isaiah’s house to a school for the children of the workers in which he had studied. At first he was a member of the Gordonia movement and in 1943 joined the young hachshara of the Hanoar Haoved movement. Was among the most cheerful of his group, with a harmonica, the song and the story did not escape his mouth. He continued his training at Lake Kinneret, from where he moved to Yagur (to train the Palmach) and eventually was transferred to the Bet Hachita training camp. The kibbutz institutions decided that the training supplemented the Scouts A group in Rehovot and transferred it there. Yeshayahu, who was married in the meantime, arrived there with his wife when they were the first married couple. Belonged to a factory that manufactured ammunition for the Haganah in the streets and was appalled by his conscience for not taking part in actual operations (because as a Palmach commander he was confined to the factory). When the War of Independence broke out he served as a sabot for only two weeks and was Simcha with it, but was later returned to the factory. He was drafted in October 1950, but in the absence of war, Yishayahu and two other comrades set out to prepare the land for the settlement of Sabra, which later became Ma’agan Michael, where he worked as his father’s driver. And during the days of the Sinai Campaign, Yishai did not agree to sit idly by in the days of the tension and alertness before the Six-Day War. He arrived and arrived at the reconnaissance unit of the Gush, and on the second day of the battles, he was 28 Iyar 5727 (7.6.1) 967), died in the course of his duties as a result of the explosion of the enemy plane that was shot down in the camp, and placed a wife and four children in a mass grave in the Haifa Military Cemetery.In his memory appeared a booklet entitled ” Who fell in the war “of Hakibbutz Hameuhad, his memory was raised.

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