(Goren) and Yaakov-Dov

Son of-Pnina and Reuven-Ze’ev was born on July 22, 1962 in Lodz, Poland, the son of a well-to-do merchant, and until his fifteenth year he studied in a vocational high school. In the meantime, the Second World War broke out, and he, aged 16, volunteered for the defense of Warsaw, served in a commando company and liquidated an enemy marby, and in one of his bold actions he was captured by the Germans, but escaped when he jumped out of the train, Poland, where he studied at a mechanical school and was one of the refugees allowed by the Soviet regime to leave Lithuania and immigrate to Israel, He joined the Betar company in Rosh Pina and a year later he joined the Lehi underground and became the mainstay of the movement’s operations department, dubbed “Dov.” His acquaintances called him “the tall blond.” He was on a mission to ” Was arrested and returned to Israel. Organized numerous operations and commanded them, among other things: the assassination of the British High Commissioner MacMichael, the burglaries of the British Intelligence in Jerusalem and Jaffa, raids on army camps and arms depots, Barclays Bank in Tel Aviv and Kfar Sirkin Airport, and other bold and dangerous operations. Twice he was wounded and rescued (his second friends forcibly removed him from Hadassah Hospital, where he was held under guard). He worked in the underground for nine consecutive years, from the age of 16, until one of the days of the last battles of the War of Independence collapsed. When he enlisted in the Haganah, he served in the 8th Brigade as a company commander with the rank of captain. He participated in the conquest of Tira, Kula, Lod and the breakaway roads of the Negev and commanded the company. He also completed a course for infantry officers and graduated with honors. Jacob fell in Uja al-Hafir during Operation Horev on 24 December 1948 and was buried in Halutza. He left a wife, Leah. On the 20th of Tammuz 5709 (20.7.1949), he was put to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery. His parents and sister were exterminated by the Nazis and only one brother survived and arrived in Palestine in 1947.