Fite, Yitzhak (Itchele)

Was born in 1913 to a respected religious family in the town of Julibiana-Gora in western Galicia, Poland. He studied at the Heder and elementary school. Out of a strong desire to add his mind, he left his parents’ home as a soft boy. Without a penny in his pocket, he crossed the border by foot and reached Frankfurt on the River Main, and after much effort, he was accepted as a yeshiva student. He excelled in the field of general studies. When the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933 he fled to France and after a great deal of shaking he arrived in Israel that year. He joined the pioneer public and was a member of the Histadrut labor federation, Mapai and the Haganah, and Yitzhak worked in the orchards of Petach Tikva and the Even-Sid quarries in Migdal Tzedek and refused to accept office work offered to him. He was ill again and lay in the hospital for months, and when he got up and left, the bad news came to him that his only brother, who had survived the entire family, had been murdered by a Polish drunkard “When the War of Independence began, he stabilized and was accepted into the army despite his poor health, served in the Golani Brigade and was sent to Sha’ban The Golan Heights, which once invaded the Jordan Valley on May 16, 1948, took control of several of the area’s outposts, but were stopped by our forces in Tzemach. On May 18, the Syrians launched an attack on a plant with the help of artillery and tanks, and our forces did not withstand the intensity of the Syrian attack, first the town of Tzemach and finally the police station, and the defenders retreated under Syrian fire towards Degania, 18 May 1948). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Degania Aleph. He left behind a cheerful wife.