Goldberg, Jacob

The only son of Matilde and Shlomo was born on 12.6.1925 in the city of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and was educated in the elementary school of the ultra-Orthodox community, and in 1937 his parents immigrated to Israel and Yaakov grew up and was educated in Kibbutz Heftzi-Baha He joined the Palmach and hurriedly helped his car to Ein Harod, which was besieged on the “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1946), where he worked as a carpenter, Was wounded in the shooting of British soldiers and taken to the Atlit camp and from there to the Rafah detention camp. Where he was released among the latter because they suspected him of being most active in the Haganah. From the beginning of the War of Independence, he served on the route of Beit Shean Harod and transporting food to Jerusalem, on a road under the control of the gangs. His parents’ anxious anxieties about his old life made him anxious to move to the ranks of the Palmach’s fighters, in order to rid himself of the distress of loneliness in the driver’s cabin, while he was always in danger of being hit and stabbed. (March 21, 1948), his convoy was attacked on his way to Jerusalem near a eunuch, his car flared up and he and his friend Yeshayahu Grodner of Tel Yosef were burned in the armored cab. Jacob was laid to rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Heftzi-Baha. In the booklet “In Memory of the Four”, which was published on behalf of Kibbutz Heftzi-Baha in memory of four kibbutz members who fell in battle, pages were published in his memory.