Gruner, Yair

Son of Sarah and Hanania-Leib, was born in Tel Aviv in 1927. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and joined the Palmach and joined the Palmach. His friends moved to Kibbutz Revadim in the Etzion Bloc and invested a great deal of energy in building the agriculture and shaping the social character of the kibbutz life, he was firm in his views, his mouth and his Lev were equal in conversations and debates. And his mouth is full of poetry, and in the winter of 1948 he was responsible for the security of the kibbutz as the commander of the Palmach, and when the Arabs began firing at the kibbutz he said, “I do not care if I fall – But on the Day of Resurrection, on January 14, 1948, the Arabs carried out a heavy attack on the settlements of the Gush. Yair led his men to chase the enemy, and he led them upright, suddenly found themselves in a crossfire, amidst the roar of shots fired by Yair. And in order to save the people, he was hit by a bullet and dropped, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the booklet “Hanoch, Yair, Erez, Itzik – in memory”, which Kibbutz Revadim published in Adar Alef 1948 One of the friends, that the first son to be born on the kibbutz would be called Yair. But it was not three months later and the entire kibbutz became a memory of heroic struggle until the bitter end that came on the day of the fall of Gush Etzion on the 4 th of Iyar 5708 (13.5.1948) On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) To rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.