Galili (Bechchenko), Yitzhak

Son of Nechama and Naftali. He was born in 1876 in Berailov, Ukraine, to a merchant family, and after graduating from the Hebrew school in the town his father, who was a Zionist, sent his parents to complete his studies at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. His efforts were successful and he became one of the most outstanding members of his class, especially in mathematics, and among his acquaintances he was known as a talented, cultured, and very sociable young man, and many sought his closeness. He worked in the orchards and was active in guarding and defending when the World War broke out He was sent to the school for translators in Baalbek and on his way from Damascus, he contracted typhus and was hospitalized in a Turkish hospital, and his friends, who were in the school at that time, did not know what had happened to him and only when they left for Passover did they find the doctor who treated him He died in 1917. His parents, three brothers and three sisters set up a stone in his memory in the cemetery of Avihayil.