Fruman, Chaim (Heinz-Richard)

Son of Rivka and Yitzhak, was born on 22 July 1919 in the city of Borum, in the Rhineland, Germany. He graduated from high school and studied carpentry. Before the outbreak of World War II, he fled from Germany to the Netherlands and arrived in Israel on an illegal immigrant ship in 1939. Upon his arrival he joined Kibbutz Mishmar Hayam. In 1940 he joined the British army on behalf of the kibbutz and served in the Engineers’ Corps with the rank of sergeant (sergeant) in Israel and Egypt. In 1946 he was discharged from the British army and settled in Nahariya. In 1947 he moved to Haifa and worked as a furniture carpenter. In March 1948 he joined the Carmeli Brigade. He participated in the defense of Haifa, in the attack on Jenin, in the defense of the Jezreel Valley, in the Mishmar Hayarden system and in the ten days in the Galilee. After completing these battles, he took a course in combat brigades in Atlit and rose to the rank of sergeant: Haim was stable and loyal in fulfilling his duties and did not think of war for war and missed the moment when he would enjoy a quiet life in his family, To conquer the Shaykh ‘Abd outpost, which was captured by the enemy on the morning of October 22, 1948. The armored vehicle went up on a mine and was not hit, but the Arabs surrounded it and when they ran out of ammunition the fighters fell with them on the 19th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 22, 1948). With the capture of the Galilee in Operation Hiram, his body was found and brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.