Fishelovich, Gad (Harry)

Son of Zipora and David, was born on July 25, 1925, in the city of Galatz, Romania, where he studied in an elementary school and a Romanian gymnasium, where he moved to Bucharest, where he worked in the Zionist underground until he was deported with thousands of other Jews to Transnistria , When Romania cooperated with Nazi Germany, where he learned a little Yiddish, and after the liberation of Romania he immigrated to Israel in 1944 as a youth worker and worked as an agricultural laborer in Kfar Hasidim, learned Hebrew quickly and settled in the local youth life, And served in one of the battalions. He took part in the battles of Reda, Deirdre and others. The battalion newspaper noted exemplary, saying: “excelled at the landing decreased the transfer of wounded under sniper fire and mortar fire incessantly in the open, organized the connection and supplies to positions under enemy fire throughout the day.” Was sent to act behind the enemy lines, volunteered for every difficult and dangerous task out of a desire to avenge the torture and insult of the people. According to the commander of his battalion, three medals were recommended. “In the battalion he had no other,” the battalion commander said. “In every army there is not much like him.” “If someone deserves a hero’s title, it’s Gad.” On October 22, 1948, during the second truce, Kaukji’s forces attacked the outpost abruptly and he fell. The day after that another attack took place, but again without success, when Gad was given a withdrawal order, Gad remained to cover the retreats, and when the stan balls ran out, he continued throwing grenades And when they ran away, they saw him from the nearby authorities defending himself by throwing stones – and they had not seen him again since then, and he was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.