Feigenbaum, Levy

Son of Ahuva and Elimelech, was born on April 4, 1925 in Safed, where he studied at an elementary school in Haifa, completed his elementary school in Kiryat Haim and continued his studies at the Yagur Regional School in 1941. In 1941, He enlisted in the Palmach and joined a training group of the “Mahanot Haolim” in Ayelet Hashahar. In 1944 he went with his group to the lands of Beit Keshet. Where he married a girl from Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar. He worked in pastures, fields and fields. He served as a patrolman and had a weapon. He learned Arabic and knew the Arabs of the area. Was a great athlete. On the 17th of Adar 2, 1948, Levy went out with seven members of Beit Keshet to tour the area and was attacked by a gang of hundreds of Arab tribesmen who surrounded them and managed to escape to the kibbutz and call for reinforcements, After three days of tedious negotiations, their bodies were returned, and Levi was brought to eternal rest in the Beit Keshet cemetery, where he left behind a pregnant wife – Nitza and son of-Amiram, parents, brother-in-law and sister. His son, who was born a month after they fell, was named after him, Levi.