Gelbgiser, Shlomo

Son of Sarah and Jacob, a peasant family that settled in Mishmar HaYarden from 1890, and after the 1929 riots moved to the Borochov neighborhood. He was born on September 10, 1923, in Mishmar HaYarden. He completed an elementary school in the Borochov neighborhood and began working in cooks in Ramat Gan. When he was 18 years old, in 1941, he joined the British army together with his brother Menachem, and with the establishment of the Jewish Brigade he joined it among the first. Shlomo Lechem on the Italian front and with the eradication of the enemy reached Holland. Where he devoted himself to caring for refugee children, teaching them Hebrew and planting the love of the land in their hearts. Upon his discharge from the British army, he did not see himself free from national service. He joined the Irgun underground and took part in activities against the British and the Arabs, and during the War of Independence he took part in the Jewish conquest and in the attack on Wilhelma he fell, carrying the Bren machinegun, advancing to the fence of the village and firing his machine gun He was seriously wounded and his friends returned him to his Jewishness and on 10 May 1948 he died on the way to the hospital. Shlomo was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. His twin brother Menahem fell two months later, in the great Egyptian attack on Negba.