Falkovitz, Chaim

Chaim, son of Batya-Feiga and Levi-Yitzhak Falkovitz, was born in 1923 in Strozynitz, Bukovina, where he studied at a yeshiva and high school, and later worked as a plumber. After the liberation of Romania, in 1944, although the voyage at sea was still dangerous, he boarded the first ship sailing from Romania. In the War of Independence he saw a practical realization of the desire for vengeance that had laid in his Lev since he saw the torture of his people by the impure enemy, as he expressed in his poem “Vengeance, “But we do not retreat, we will avenge the past in the future and we will deliver the redemption to our people in our land.” So he continued until the enemy bullet hit him. He took part in the operation “Brosh” to destroy the Syrian bridgehead in the Mishmar Hayarden area and in the fierce battles in this area, and fell on the 3rd of Tammuz 5707 (July 10, 1948). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.