Fish, Avigdor

Son of Rivka and Yitzhak, was born on January 11, 1917 in the city of Tarnow, Galicia, Poland (then – Austria). From the time he grew up, he was preparing for a pioneering aliyah, and he did immigrate to Israel on January 5, 1939, on the illegal immigrant ship Delpe, three quarters of a year before the outbreak of the Second World War. Upon his arrival in Israel, he immediately joined the core of Kibbutz Shorashim in the Lower Galilee. Had a lot of technical information and exploited them for his group. Meanwhile the Second World War broke out and he saw his primary duty to fight the Nazi enemy. Avigdor joined the Jewish units of the British Army and served there throughout the war. After a short period of peace he volunteered again for the campaign, this time for the War of Independence, and served in the Carmeli Brigade. He fell in the Battle of Birwa on July 10, 1948, during Operation Dekel to liberate the Galilee, leaving behind a wife and a child on August 17, 1948, Nahariya.