Groashkin, Gideon

The only son of Dobrosha-Miriam, a midwife and chief nurse in the Jewish hospital in Alexandria (and later a midwife at Schweitzer Hospital in Tiberias), and Leib-Yitzhak, was born on March 9, 1927 in Egypt. On the first day of his life, he spent four years in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem, where he was transferred to a private home in Beit Hakerem, where he studied in elementary school and high school. Which made it difficult for him to adjust to the new environment.Gidon excelled in a fundamental love of order in all his behavior and was, by nature, moderate, modest and polite, Eddie , He was interested in art and music and had a special talent for languages, and for a short while he learned to speak and read Russian, and as a teenager he read and became interested in social problems and joined the Communist Party. Since 1944 he has been an active member of the Haganah, an internal member of the Haganah and an active member of the Haganah. At the beginning of the campaign in 1948, he was sent to Kfar Etzion and returned from there in the Nabi Daniel convoy, where he took part in a course on radio communication and became a guide in this field.Gidon participated in the battles for the breakthrough to Jerusalem and the battles of Katamon and Sheikh Jarrah During the first truce, Who managed to escape from Egypt at the outbreak of the War of Independence, but refused to remain at home and returned to the front of Jerusalem on 15 July 1948. He fell on a landmine during the conquest of the Arab village of Malha. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.