Glazer, Jacob

Son of Sarah and Anshel. He was born on 2/3/1911 in Khodorov, Poland (Galicia), where he studied in a commercial school and joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement at the age of 16. He was among the founders of the local branch. In 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined Kibbutz Tel Amal (Nir David), but before that he was in a work battalion in Beit Alpha, where he worked in drilling wells and specialized in water, In the height of the events of 1936-1939, with the cost of his kibbutz on the land in the Beit Shean Valley as a “wall and stockade” settlement, Yaakov became the driver of the kibbutz and, with peace of mind and security, passed his friends through the barrage of shots fired by the gangs of Arab rioters who ambushed them on the roads and was always his first car in the convoy, and was also sent to the land of other “wall and tower” settlements. On the day of the “Black Sabbath” on 29.6.1946, when the news came that British forces were surrounding the tanks and armored vehicles of Ein Harod for weapons searches, Yaakov volunteered to transport the members of Tel Amal Help the besieged farms. He passed the members safely on the bypass road, and after they continued to move on foot towards the Ein Harod farm, he remained to guard the truck, together with his friend Tuvia Artel. The British soldiers aimed their weapons at them and shot. Both were critically wounded. On the way to the hospital in Afula, Yaakov died of his wounds. He was laid to rest at Nir David (Tel Amal). He left a wife, a daughter and a son. Members of Kibbutz Nir David published a booklet in his memory and his friend Tuvia Artel. The booklet contains, among other things, things that were said by the open graves: “Dear and pure victims, innocent of crime, will not deter us from our path and will not break our spirits as human beings and as Jews.