Greenblatt, Yitzhak
Son of Eliyahu and Rivka. He was born on February 8, 1935, in the city of Volodowa, Poland, when he was four years old when the Second World War began, and his family fled to Russia and settled in the city of Hummel. In the midst of the war between Russia and Germany two years later, his father was drafted into the Russian army, and when the Germans entered Hummel, his mother fled with her five small children to one kolkhoz near Stalingrad. Two years passed and his eldest brother was drafted into the army, and since he started helping the family, he was studying After the war, the father returned to the bosom of the family, and after a while the family returned to Poland, and later Yitzhak (together with his brother and sister) joined the youth movement of HaPoel Hamizrachi with the intention of immigrating to Poland. Not long after, the family left Poland and met in Germany, where they spent two years in a concentration camp under the supervision of the American army, where he studied in a Hebrew school, dealt in sports and art, In 1948, the entire family immigrated and settled in Jaffa immediately after its conquest. Two years later Yitzhak, who was only 15 years old, asked that his father allow him to join Gadna, but his father refused, saying that it was possible only when the firstborn returned from the war. In the end, Yitzhak volunteered half a year before his service and joined the Nahal Brigade, and as a result of many pleas and requests, he was transferred to the Navy he fell on the 29th of Sivan, June 30, 1954. He fell in combat at the Sea of Galilee and was brought to rest – Forever in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.
