Finke, Gunther-Simcha

Son of Freidel and Gregor-Herschel, was born on December 6, 1928 in Berlin, the capital of Germany. He graduated from a Jewish elementary school in Berlin. After surviving all the horrors of World War II, he immigrated to Israel in April 1948, enlisted and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. He served in the religious company that fought on the front of the center and afterwards in the south. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation operation” was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.