Habkin, Yedidya (Eddie)

Son of-Rivka and Nathan-son of-Zion was born on 23 June 1903 in Munich, Germany. Yedidya published articles in German on astrology and later on in Hebrew (on the stylistics in” Moznaim” and on Avraham Ibn Ezra in Hatzofeh) and finally in English newspapers. For years, he wrote a multi-content journal on a typewriter in Hebrew and German and corresponded with other people (Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and others). He worked in clerical work and was for a time the private secretary of Dr. Feigenbaum and Dr. Greenfelder. He did not find time to do anything for his home and walked alone. He participated in various defensive activities and recently worked in the construction of fortifications in Kiryat Anavim on behalf of Solel Boneh, where he was hit by an enemy shell and fell on Wednesday, June 11, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim. He was followed by a collection of about 40 books on astronomy, which was transferred to the National Library as his estate.