Green, Yehezkel

Son of Henia and Yitzhak, the first certified pharmacist in Israel, was born on the 3rd of Adar, February 27, 1925 in Tel Aviv, the fourth generation to be born in the country, and named after his grandfather, who was the first Hebrew mukhtar in Jaffa and one of the founders of Jewish immigration and settlement. Yehezkel was a member of the Haganah from his youth, participated in the defense of Emek Hefer’s farms during the British siege after the “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1946) and was arrested for a month. At the beginning of 1948 he enlisted first as a guide and later as a military policeman, and after the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces he joined the 8th Brigade, without revealing it to his parents. Even in the army he continued his athletic activities. Yehezkel went into battle despite the demand to keep him as a sports officer and instructor in the IDF’s Physical Training Department and despite the Navy’s demands to return him as a trained chemist and electrician whose work was vital to the Mossad. He took part in the breakthrough to the Negev as one of the first and in the conquest of Beersheba On the 7th of Heshvon 9/11/1948 he fell in the battle to conquer the Iraq-Suidan Police when his half-track attacked the police building and was hit directly by an armor-piercing shell. Yechezkel was laid to rest in the military cemetery Kfar Warburg.