Gelbgiser, Menachem

Son of Sarah and Jacob, was born on September 9, 1923 in Mishmar HaYarden. He graduated from the elementary school in the Borochov neighborhood and began studying at the gymnasium in Ramat Gan. At the outbreak of World War II, he and his brother Shlomo joined the British army. They joined the Jewish Brigade, fought in battles on the Senio River in Italy, and took part in the brigade’s journey through Europe to the Low Countries. After the Germans’ eradication, he worked to help She’erith Hapleitah, rescue Jewish orphans from homes in the Diaspora, and transfer the remains to the illegal immigration ports in Italy. Menachem was discharged from the British army in 1946 and after his return to Eretz Israel he joined the Irgun underground, underwent training and participated with his brother Shlomo in activities against the foreign regime and against the Arab rioters, the conquest of northern Jaffa and the battles of Ramle and Wilhelma, He recently joined the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in the battles against the Egyptians, and recently launched a “Baran” machine gun in the eastern sector in the attack on Negba, opposite the attacking Egyptians from Iraq-Suidan. An Egyptian tank for the attacking forces waited until he approached and threw a Molotov cocktail at him, and continued firing at the strait The air force was destroyed and the soldiers were forced to go out and fight in open areas, and then he was wounded by a cluster of bullets and fell on the day of Tammuz 5708 (July 12, 1948). He was laid to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in Negba.