Galfman, Reuven

Son of Chaya-Lapsha and Eliahu, was born on May 17, 1931 in Pardes Hannah, and after completing the elementary school, he expressed his opinion that “our country is small and the sea is large and broad and therefore needs to be conquered” At the Naval School in Haifa, was one of the best students and excelled in the study trips that reached Cyprus and Rhodes, and when the War of Independence broke out, he was forced to stop his studies. Of the Naval School, volunteered immediately, despite his young age, to active duty, served in the “Ha-Furutzim” battalion in the Harel Brigade of the Palmach in the battles of Castel and I Samuel stood guard besieged Jerusalem. In his last letter to his parents, he noted with satisfaction that “we are on horseback.” As an excellent machine gunner, he gave cover to his fellow attackers in many battles, irrespective of the bullets and shells that whistled around him and fell nearby. Reuven fell in battle on Mount Zion on May 15, 1948, when he tried to break into the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and was buried in Sheik Bader Aleph. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.