Har Zahav, Yaakov-Ephraim

Son of Devorah and Shmuel, was born on the 25th of Elul, September 9, 1928 in the city of Hanover, Germany. In 1934, when he was six years old, Yaakov-Ephraim immigrated to Israel with his father and after a short period his mother immigrated. They settled in Tel Aviv and Yaakov-Ephraim studied first in Talmud Torah and later in the religious elementary school Sinai. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle, onthe 26th of Kislav, December 28, 1948, he fell with all the members of the company. Yaakov-Ephraim was buried in a temporary grave in the pocket of Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred together with his friends who fell with him to eternal rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.