Globetrotter Gideon (Gidi)

Son of Dora and Shmuel, was born on November 4, 1922 in Stry, near Lutsk, Poland. As a child, the family moved to Germany and the Nazis took power and fled to Czechoslovakia. They first lived in the city of Karlsbad and then moved to the city of Most in the Sudetenland. Where he met the Zionist movement and was accepted as a member of the Tchelet Lavan and Maccabi movements. Until Hitler’s conquest of the Sudetenland, he managed to complete his studies in an elementary school and enrolled in a trade school. With the occupation, the family moved to Prague, and a few months later, in 1939, Gidon immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliya. He was one of the “Marz” group, whose members were among the elite members of the “Tekhelet Lavan” movement. He was sent to the Kinneret group for training and was educated there for two years. In September 1941 he enlisted in the British Army; With the establishment of the Jewish Brigade he joined her and moved to Italy. He was wounded in the battles, but during World War II his recovery at the hospital in Egypt ended. After his recovery, he was sent back to Europe, and with the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, he was helping the illegal immigrants. Upon his discharge from the British army, he joined Kibbutz Dorot, which was also joined by the “March” group, which maintained strong ties with its members during all his years in the army. In the kibbutz he worked in various jobs and eventually was a driver; He was a man of idea and action, powerless and lively, pleasant, ready for any difficult task, and never went the easy way of resistance. He loved the wide fields and the tractor, but when he needed a driver he was willing to give up, for he preferred the common good to his own tendencies, though secretly he did not accept the gray driver’s work and craved daring. At the beginning of the War of Independence, on a car laden with barrels of fuel for Kibbutz Dorot, on December 20, 1947, he was attacked by a volley of gunfire in the village of Yasur, and the bullets hit the barrels, which were set on fire. The burning car, Gideon was brought to rest in the graveyard of generations.