Fochas, Isaac
Son of Hayah and David, was born on June 27, 1924, in Ein Ganim to parents of the Second Aliyah and the first of the first moshavim in Eretz Israel: Ein Ganim, where he studied at the moshav school and was already famous for his rich imagination, sensitive Lev and musical talent. After completing elementary school, he moved to the Ahad Ha’am high school in Petach Tikvah, where he grew up, began to write songs and compose melodies, and “the sounds of his tunes are light and fluttering, and he has a certain sadness in their wings.” In the “BaMaleh” newspaper, when he completed his studies at the Gymnasium, he joined the Nutras and at the same time began studying at the Levinsky Teachers’ College He studied at the “Ahad Ha’am” Gymnasium in Petach Tikvah and his favorite teaching subjects were sports, literature and music, while at the same time he was a youth movement counselor in the Hagana, , An evening school for working boys and children’s playgrounds, was soon recognized as a popular and popular public figure, organized choirs in schools and youth movements and was among the editors of the monthly “Shalom” magazine, in memory of the writer Shalom Shtreit z “l. Did not settle for the Torah he bought and went to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but he did not neglect his public activities and the Haganah. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he fought at the head of a squad in positions in the homes of the evangelists in Jerusalem and also taught in the ranks of the Haganah. When he accompanied the first convoy to the besieged Gush Etzion, there was a band of murderers and it fell on the day of Kislev 5708 (11 December 1947). He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Petah Tikva. In one of his poems, a song eulogized a fallen friend, he wrote: “Young trees in the homeland, bow down to the land of your head!
