Greenfeld, Shraga-Feivel

The only son of Rachel and Meir was born on the 15th of Tamuz, July 7, 1925 in Szczecin, near Bialystok, Poland, and immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel in January 1926. From his childhood, he was educated on the values ​​of religion, tradition and nationalism. Shraga was loved by all for his knowledge, good temper, modesty, and seriousness. And after completing three years of service he returned home and since then invested all his energies in work and concern for the family’s livelihood. On February 15, 1948, Shraga-Feivel joined the Sherut-L’Am in full mobilization and served in the Golani Brigade. He took a course for a Spandau machine gun and a wireless course, and later served as a radio operator and a motorcyclist. In the battles in the Jordan Valley (Beit Yerah, around Tzemach, Degania) he participated as a machine gunner and later was transferred to Tiberias. He would write frequent letters to his parents. On 18 Tamuz, July 25, 1948, during the course of his duties, on the way to Haifa an enemy bullet killed him. A year later, on the 17th of Tammuz 5707 (17.7.1949), Shraga-Feivel was brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery by his company.

About two weeks before his fall, Shraga-Feivel brought a Torah scroll cover he found to his synagogue. His parents dedicated a Torah scroll in his memory that would be wrapped in this cover.