Graofa, Isaac

Son of Dinah and Moshe, was born on June 13, 1924 in Hamburg, Germany. He was educated in the Netherlands and immigrated with his parents to Israel in 1939. In Israel, he completed his studies at the “Ohel Shem” Gymnasium in Ramat Gan and later spent a year of service in the Ramat Yochanan and Kfar Szold groups. Yitzhak called the work life and the village and joined the “Beeri” group in Gedera. The group’s ownership of its settlement in the Negev was Yitzhak among the first immigrants. During the Second World War he joined the British Army, served in Egypt, joined the Jewish Brigade and served in Europe. When he returned to Israel, he studied at the Kadouri Agricultural School and later returned to the kibbutz, where he was one of the centers of the agriculture. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he worked in the Negev as part of the Palmach, went to Barot Yitzhak to study in a modern weapons course, and took part in the cruel battle that destroyed the entire agriculture, but his defenders stood up heroically against the Egyptians until the sound of the Israeli cannons he had rescued and rescued. Raised his head to repair it, and at the same moment was hit by the enemy’s bullet and fell on the 8th of Tamuz, 8 July 1948). He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Bari.