Ginsburg, Yitzhak (Itzik)

Was born in the city of Pinsk, Poland, and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1935. In Israel he studied at the “Center” and the “New High School” in Tel Aviv. He was active in the Hashomer Hatzair movement and was distinguished for his outstanding organizational strength and influence and guidance, and when he was called to work as an instructor in the movement he left the school and devoted himself to this work and even moved to the municipal commune of his movement With members of his group to Kibbutz Revadim in Gush Etzion, where the center of the kibbutz and its secretary were located, and on the occasion of the economic affairs in Tel Aviv, He joined the members of the “Halachah” (“the Mountain Division”), the Palmach and Hachash fighters, who were sent as reinforcements to Gush Etzion after the great attack on the Gush on January 14, 1948, and served as a guide because they had paths The whole environment. The fighters left Hartuv on the night of 15-16 January, loaded with weapons, ammunition and equipment, but due to the late hour of departure and the difficulties of the road, they could not reach Gush Katif in the night. At dawn, the department was discovered by villagers in the area of ​​the villages of Beit Natif, Jaba and Surif, who called the Arabs of the area to the area and surrounded the department. The fighters organized themselves on one of the hills (the “Battle Hill” today) and fought with the masses of Arabs until they all fell in battle on the day of the 15th of Shevat 5708 (January 16, 1948.) Yitzhak was brought to a mass grave in Kfar Etzion on 17.11. 1949), was transferred with the other victims of the Gush to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.