Gilboa, Ayala

Daughter of Chava nee Havkin and Shmuel (who immigrated from America as a volunteer of the 39th Hebrew Regiment in the First World War), was born on November 30, 1930 in Merhavia, the “red Eelka” At a girls ‘elementary school in Tel Aviv, her parents’ place of residence, and when she was 16 and a half she went to agricultural training in Hulata together with the Hanoar Haoved group from Tel Aviv and returned to help her parents for a while, Independence volunteered and served in the Palmach in the Yiftach Brigade in Yagur, Ein Hashofet, Rosh Pina, and finally in Tzrifin. She worked nights and days as a mother for 6-8 boys, her combat friends, washed for them, feared for their fate and greeted them with mother-in-law when they came back from my actions. She mourned the fallen and tried to strengthen herself and the rest. After a day off at her parents’ home, she returned to the Zrifin camp with two friends. During her separation from the relatives, she asked to tell her grandmother that she was going to continue the chain that began with her grandfather (who had served in the first battalion of Yehuda of Eretz Yisrael volunteers to the British army who conquered the Land of Israel from the Turks) And her aunt, who served in the British Army during the Second World War. And now she is participating in the War of Independence, and is trying to prove that a homeland is not easily bought and sacrifices must be made for it. On May 3, 1948, when Ayala and her two friends were on their way to the base, they passed Rishon LeZion and were hit by a heavy air bombardment and were killed. (The bodies of all three, charred and organ-cut, were identified by chance.) She was buried in Rishon Letzion. On the 19th of Tammuz 5710 (22.6.1950) she was sent to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.