Gerd, Yitzhak-Naftali

Son of Chaya nee Levinstein and Todros, was born on 24 August 1929 in Jerusalem, in the days of the riots of 1929. When he grew up, he saw the date of his birth as a sign of fate, that he would defend Jerusalem so that he would not be sent to the rioters again. – “Geula” and later in the “Ma’aleh” school, in the summer of 1946 he left with his colleagues in the Beit Yehoshua group of the Akiva movement. He held a treasurer and councilor in the nest. Yitzhak-Naftali handled the matter pleasantly, seriously and wisely. Afterward he went with his friends in the “Akiva” group for agricultural training in the Beit Yehoshua group. Here he bore the suffering of creation and settlement with humor and anticipation of a better future. He joined the Haganah and once, during training, his shoulder bone was broken, but he was careful not to bother his friends with action and restrained his suffering. Even at home he did not take a sigh out of his mouth so as not to worry his parents. Nor did he use this opportunity to free himself from his functions in the Haganah. There were two contrasting features that gave him a special and attractive character: seriousness and depth, yet cheerfulness, humor, and a tendency to slap which was sharply expressed in meetings and meetings of friends. When the War of Independence broke out, following the UN General Assembly resolution, he took part in the defense of the extremist neighborhoods of Jerusalem and was then conscripted to the Alexandroni Brigade, and his mother, who asked for discharge or at least partial service because of her illness, replied simply: On October 18, 1948, while standing at a lookout near the village of Yavetz in a barrage of shells, Yediot telephoned until the last minute, until he was hit and fell. He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Netanya, where the Akiva training program at Beit Yehoshua published a booklet in his memory, and the composer Gabriel Grad dedicated his “Anthem to the Respondent Rabbi Israel “for voice and piano.