Ginot, Yoseph

Son of Frumet and Yehoshua, was born in 1930 in the city of Suceava, Bukovina where he was educated in the spirit of religion and tradition and was a member of the Bnei Akiva movement. At the age of 11 he was deported together with the entire family to Transnistria, and after three years of suffering he was liberated by the Russians. By sneaking into the ship “Max Nordoi” Yoseph arrived in Israel in 1946. As part of Youth Aliyah, he was sent to Neve Amiel and worked as a tractor operator and also underwent all the Haganah training. After 29.11.1947, the day of the UN General Assembly resolution on partition, he was one of the first fighters to become an Israeli soldier. Operation “Death to the Intruder” was an attempt to break through to the Negev, the landing company reinforced the Givati ​​Brigade.The landing company had to attack the village of Bait Afa from the north, along with the Givati ​​Company, which attacked from the south. The Egyptians concentrated their efforts against the landing company, which was seized by the village and finally had to retreat, and on that day, 11th of Tamuz, July 18, 1948 Yoseph was killed. On the 16 of Tishrei October 9, 1949 he was reinterred in the military cemetery in Nachalat Yitzchak.