Grover, Jacob (Yankele)

The only son of Rachel and Moshe was born on 14.7.1927 in Jerusalem. Due to the difficulties of earning a living, the family wandered to various places of work in Israel and he studied in the schools in Herzliya and Kfar Sava. He was known as a model student, especially in history, and in Herzliya he was named “Professor of History” by the teachers. When he was 13, the boy stopped his studies and went to work. In Kfar Saba he was a member of Hanoar Haoved, and at the age of 14 he secretly asked his father to persuade the mother to join the Palmach and to serve in Kibbutz Eilon in the Western Galilee. Who later became a member of the Jewish Brigade, and at the age of 17 volunteered for the Jewish Brigade, and when he received a vacation and the possibility of traveling home, he preferred to stay in Italy and take advantage of his vacation to work In Paris, he encountered a Jewish wife in the street So because a priest refused to return her two children he had rescued from being transported to an extermination camp, and Jacob entered HaKohen and succeeded in influencing him with evidence from the Bible, which would return the children to their mother and their people. When he was released from the British army and returned home, he found his parents in Bat Yam in a difficult material situation. Yaakov did not ask the institutions for compensation as a discharged soldier, because in his opinion he should not seek compensation for fulfilling his obligation, but rather enlisted in work, and spent his free time teaching at the “HaNoar HaOved” branch. After moving with his parents to Holon, he devoted himself to the activities of the Young Guard and was elected to its secretariat. As a member of the Hagashah, he came to the defense of the place immediately after the outbreak of the War of Independence and was found to have a clear military fitness, was once arrested by the British “order guard,” was released and immediately returned to his position, Father, I’m going, but you have to be ready for anything, and not even come back … “Yaakov volunteered to tour the tall house in Tel Arish, from which the Arabs fired murder shots into the streets of Holon, returned there with the sappers to blow up the house. , But he was hit by a bullet and fell on the 12th of Tevet 5708 (25.12.1947) and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak.