Freiberg, Israel-Menachem

The only son of Yocheved and Yechezkel was born in Hungary on July 31, 1927. He survived the horrors of the war and the Holocaust and at the end of the war he arrived on the underground route to Italy and in November 1945 he immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah. And to work and protect the religious youth Aliyat Yavneh group in Kvutzat Yavneh and the religious youth village near Kfar Hasidim, and joined the settlement group in Kfar Darom, and he loved the work, which focused on order and social and moral perfection in his group. Reading and spiritual training, and with his sense of duty and responsibility he demanded from his friends with Peru The War of Independence did not delay the transfer of the nuclear project to Kfar Darom, in order to participate in the defense of the bombarded and constantly harassed spot by the Egyptian forces, but Kfar Darom was evacuated and they were only able to reach Be’erot Yitzhak, where he stood in the line of defenders and served as a machine gunner. He refused to change it, so that it would not be considered a retreat, and there he was hit by a cluster of bullets and fell on the 15th of Tammuz 5708 (July 15, 1948). He was buried in the wells of Isaac. His widowed mother arrived in Israel after his death. On the 20th of Cheshvan 5710 (October 31, 1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.