Haravon, Hanoch (Heinz)

Son of Frida and Aryeh, was born on October 18, 1919 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, to a well-to-do family as one of two twin sons. In 1933 he immigrated to Eretz Israel with his friends and was sent to a kibbutz and soon learned the Hebrew language and became well-placed in Israeli society. Hanoch studied the electricity industry and joined the ranks of the Haganah in the bloody events of 1936- He was a member of the Hagana who took part in the defense of the city of Safed, and when he was called to volunteer in the British army he did not hesitate to enlist in the British Army Corps of Engineers, where he served in Egypt and Italy. He met a family member who later became his wife, and Hanoch assisted the military rabbi in his various activities. The Eretz Israel Club in the city initiated and worked very well to help Jewish soldiers enjoy their vacation, and as a member of many of his comrades in the army was an active educator in immigration to Eretz Israel and equipped the Ma’apilim with food and at the end of World War II. On January 15, 1948, when he traveled from the Krayot to Haifa, he was shot on the bus in which he was traveling from the direction of Wadi Rumshmiya and was wounded by mortal wounds. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife, a daughter, and a brother. His brother Emanuel died in the battles of Latrun a few months after they fell. His name was immortalized in the book Kiryat Hayim in the War of Independence.