Gabock, Jacob

Was born on 15 August 1929 in Bessarabia to a family of religious workers, and at the age of twelve he was sent to the ghetto in the village of Zhimrynka in the Ukraine, and in 1944, after the ghetto was liberated by the Red Army, Jacob and his two brothers were taken by the Red Army to clean up and rehabilitate the city from the destruction that took place during the war, and later were recruited to serve in the Red Army, He took up the burden of his family, which included his mother and two younger brothers, who worked in various jobs until 1946, when he left his family and traveled to Romania, He joined the youth group in the religious moshav of Sde Ya’akov, where he joined the navy and served in the landing company, and on the night of 17-18 July 1948, a “Death to the Intruder” operation was carried out in an attempt to break through the Negev. Landed the Givati ​​Brigade and was forced to attack the village of Beit Afa to the north, along with a Givati ​​company that attacked from the south, and the landing company entered the village and clung to its north, but the attack from the south failed. The operation suffered a bitter failure, resulting in many dead and missing persons. For a few months Jacob was considered to be absent, but at the end of 1949 the fighters’ graves were found in the Beit Afa cemetery and they were brought to eternal rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.