Greenberg, Ze’ev (Titty)

Son of Shoshana and Avraham was born in 1925 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. He attended elementary school and in 1940 came to Israel as part of the Youth Aliya. He worked and studied for two years in a “youth company” in Kfar Yehoshua, for six months in the agricultural sector of Einayim, and another year in Ramat Yohanan, specializing in agricultural work, mechanics, customs, and tractor. At work, he was disciplined, orderly and clean, and in his attitude toward friends he was good and kind, he responded to difficult tasks and performed them easily and completely. In the War of Independence, Ze’ev was forced to say goodbye to his wife and infant daughter, who were evacuated with other mothers and children to Kfar Vitkin. He bravely bore the agony of detachment and siege and influenced his future faith in his comrades. In addition to guarding the posts, he worked in the fortifications and was responsible for feeding the members from the shrinking stock of the kibbutz. The day after the occupation of Beersheba by the Israel Defense Forces, he traveled with eight friends to the liberated city, which until then was in the hands of the Egyptians and from there they would shell the kibbutz. their car drove on a mine-One of the members was lightly wounded and one of his friends was seriously injured. He suppressed his agony and did not let out any cry on his way to the hospital in Ruhama. There they cut off his hand and leg and tried to save his life with blood transfusions, but in vain. The next day, on the 17th of Tishrei 5708 (October 22, 1948), he died at the Ruhama hospital and was buried in Dorot. On the 17th of Iyar 5709 (4.5.1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa.