Falkovitz, Yehuda

Yehuda, son of Leah and Meir Falkovitz, was born in the city of Pinsk in Poland in 1912. After graduating from elementary school, he studied carpentry. His ambition was to immigrate to Israel as a pioneer, and for years he belonged to a kibbutz in the city of Vilna. In 1938 he made aliyah and was a member of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, worked in the north of the Dead Sea and later settled in Kfar Ata and worked as a carpenter, At the outbreak of the War of Independence, during the conquest of the village of Tira, a bullet entered his Lev, on 9 Tamuz, July 16, 1948. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kfar Ata, leaving behind his wife, Chasia, and two children.