Goldhar, Eliyahu (Elinka)

Son of Tshuva and Shmuel, was born on August 30, 1929 in Jerusalem. In 1947, he graduated from the Herzliya Gymnasium. He served in the Hebrew settlement police in Kfar Giladi and was a convoy escort. Twice he participated in the attacks on Nebi Yusha and its conquest, and in battles in Ramot Naftali and Malkia in the Upper Galilee. With the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces, he was stationed in the navy. During the first truce he went to Cyprus with navy ships to transfer immigrants to Haifa. In this operation several hundred young men of enlisted age were transferred to Israel. Elijah was killed by a sniper near Jaba, at the time of the cleansing of the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway on July 18, 1948, with the words: “For the liberation of Tel Aviv, for the sake of freedom.” Elijah was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.