Gingold, Yeruham (Fishco)

Son of Deborah and Abraham, was born in 1918 in the city of Czernowitz, Romania. In 1939 he immigrated to Eretz Israel in the Second Aliyah. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the British army and later on in the Jewish Brigade. Before he came to Israel, he became engaged to a young wife and hoped to bring her to Israel.
Meanwhile, World War II broke out. His fiancee wrote to him that she was releasing him from his engagement, since there was no possibility of her Aliyah. In 1946, at the end of the war, he learned that she had survived and made aliyah.He married her in March 1948. During the War of Independence he joined the Carmeli Brigade and served as a quartermaster in the battalion’s supply company. He was a loyal and dedicated soldier. On the 3rd of tamuz, July 10, 1948, during Operation Brosh to destroy the Syrian bridgehead in the Mishmar area of Jordan, four months after his marriage, he fell during an air raid on Mishmar Hayarden, while helping a wounded friend. Yeruham was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.