Frank, Asher

Son of Blanka and Leo, was born on January 2, 1919, in the city of Tieringen, Germany, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1936. He joined the Kvutzat Shiller, where he acquired the Hebrew language, called agriculture and specialized in the orchards. After completing his training years, the company moved to Kibbutz Shibolet, which was still a work company in Ra’anana, where he worked in the port of Haifa during the occupation of Hebrew labor, Zichron Yaakov vineyard and Daughter of Shlomo, and worked in the British army camps. In 1941 he moved with his friends to Degania Bet, where he found his home. He quickly entered agriculture and devoted himself especially to the plantation industry. He was a member of Degania Bet for seven years. Willing to take upon himself the burden of defending the settlements, he volunteered to help Birya, Lehavot Habashan, Metzuba and Gesher when they needed help. He was a modest man and contented himself with little. There was a lot of reading, especially professional literature. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he devoted himself to protecting and protecting the group, and was involved in digging the defensive canals. Which was sent as reinforcements to the fighters who participated in the battle over the Zemach police. On May 18, 1948, he fell among the first of the reinforcements, in front of the police building, and tried with his friends to fight rifles against a tank, and only three days after the enemy’s withdrawal, Worlds in the military cemetery in Degania Bet.