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Haglili (Glintershtik), Eliyahu

Haglili (Glintershtik), Eliyahu

Son of Feiga and Mordechai, was born on 13.11.1913 in the city of Vilna, and from the age of four onwards grew up in Janowa, Lithuania. As a child he experienced the hardships and dangers of the First World War and later the poverty of his parents’ home. He studied at the Chedarim and Yeshivas of Vilna (Vilkomir, Kovno) and bought him some general information from a private teacher. As a teenager, he studied carpentry, underwent training for the Religious Pioneer and immigrated to Israel on May 1, 1933. He settled in Haifa and worked as a carpenter, was a member of Hapoel Hamizrahi and later moved to Histadrut and Mapai, and in 1935 he married a wife who joined the Haganah in 1937 and was trained in arms and boxing. On July 8, 1948, the Northern Galilee Battalion was recruited to the “Sidoni” Brigade, where he served as a lieutenant colonel and participated in the conquest of the villages of Amka and Kwaikat in the Western Galilee. On July 24, 1948, during an Arab counter-attack on an outpost in the vicinity of the village of Mughar, he saved the lives of his classmates, but he himself fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.

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