Goldberger, Yair
Son of Avraham and Rivka. He was born on March 22, 1943 in Kibbutz Haogen. His parents were members of the Ha – Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement in Czechoslovakia and upon their arrival in Palestine were among the founders of Kibbutz Ha – Ogen. The father worked in agriculture and industry. He worked in the fields of economics and education and held important positions in the kibbutz. Yair studied in the first three grades of elementary school in the kibbutz and at the time his father left for the Jewish Agency in England he traveled with his parents and studied in London in grades 4 through 6. He learned the language of the country and the journey in general expanded his horizons. After years of longing for Yair to his home and his group, to his landscape and village, the family returned home and Yair entered seventh grade at the Ramot Hefer educational institution and finished high school there. He also studied agricultural courses, since from childhood he was attracted to nature. As we were young, he found great mental independence and opposition to all coercion. Fed up with hollow words and rebelled against the conventions. He was interested in questions of man and society. He loved poetry and continued on to fascinating activities, trips, tours, operations, army, combat, airplanes – and other types of fighting attracted his Lev, and so he read a lot in these subjects. He was interested in sport (volleyball) as well as painter and sculptor, participated in a dramatic game, danced and sang in a choir. In August 1961, he enlisted in the IDF and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, which he did not want and did not want because he did not like it, was proud of his unit’s intensive training in the spirit of the brotherhood of peace-loving boys. When he was called during the period of alert before the Six-Day War, he analyzed the situation without any illusions, and his opinion was that there was no choice but to make a military decision, and there was no point in walking but with a high head and dignity. Quietly, he prepared his platoon and became a symbol to them as he was the first in every mission and to run forward But when the plan was canceled and the brigade went up in Jerusalem and in the battle that took place at the police academy in Sheikh Jarrah there, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), the second day of the battles fell when a mortar shell exploded next to it, In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem A book was published in memory of his father, who bears his name and contains from his estate 53 “of them” in memory of the fallen members of the Kibbutz Artzi who fell in the Six Day War A memorial page was also dedicated to his book ” And a description of the last battle. In Volume 4 of “Goily Ash”, the bag of the estate of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars, was brought from his estate.
