Fish, Haim

The son of Leah and Moshe Aharon was born on February 19, 1925, in the city of Kutno, Poland. On March 23, 1926, he immigrated with his parents to Israel and the family settled in Haifa. After graduating from elementary school he studied frameworks at the vocational school of the Technion. In 1942, he accepted the demand and went on to contribute his part to the war effort in setting up the refineries in Iran. During his spare time, he devoted himself to Zionist propaganda and propaganda among the local Jews, especially the youth, and taught them about the Hebrew life. On his return from Iran he continued his professional work. He worked in the Hagana as a squad commander, excited his fellow officers and acquired their affection. Haim was very devoted to his parents and sometimes helped them even more than he could. In the fall of 1947 he began to build a building for his parents in Kiryat Motzkin together with his father, and he assumed the technical responsibility and much of the work to save expenses. When the War of Independence broke out following the resolution of the UN General Assembly on the partition of the land into two states, the completion of the building was hastened and immediately after the casting of the roof he stood up for combat duty on February 1, 1948. Although he could be released as an only child to his parents – in order to make sure that some of his friends who were transferred to service units in the rear of the estate to be in his class in the Carmeli Brigade encouraged his class on the mountain paths to the Galilee cleansing campaign and in the battle of Zippori during Operation Dekel, he fell on July 16, 1948. He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Motzkin cemetery.