Giat, Haim

son of Chamama and Yisrael Was born in 1911 in the Jewish street of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Haim attended school until his immigration to Israel in 1922 and he was 11 years old. He grew up in Jerusalem and studied the profession of electricity. Was a working man, raised a family and lived in Givat Shaul. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was among the volunteers for the defense of Jerusalem. At the same time, he was offered to move to Tel Aviv and get a job there, but he refused to leave the besieged city. When he was assigned to guard duty, he chose the most dangerous positions and guarded the front posts and roadblocks at Givat Shaul. On 1.5.1948, standing on guard duty near the checkpoint on the road to the Diskin orphanage, he was hit by shrapnel and fell. He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. He was followed by a wife and four children. On the 16th of Cheshvan, 1951, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.