Hein, Zvi

Son of Ruth and Menashe was born on July 23, 1927 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, and on July 9, 1934, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Rishon LeZion After finishing elementary school, he began working as a locksmith at the Sadan factory in Tel Aviv was a member of Hapoel and from the age of 15 began his activities in the Hagana in the framework of the Gadna. In 1945 he joined the British Army and served for two years in the Royal Engineers Corps. There, too, he continued to work for the Yishuv security forces, and when he returned from his vacation to the camp he carried with him the Haganah pamphlets. Upon his discharge from the British Army and his return to work, he returned to service. He was sent to the course of the infantry brigade commanders and served as a youth counselor in his moshav of Rishon LeZion, and with the outbreak of the War of Independence he enlisted in the defense of the settlement and the nearby settlements and occasionally went with his friends in the Givati ​​Brigade to retaliate. Yavneh On January 17, 1948, two squadrons from the department left for a tour of Gan Yavne in the area with two pistols and two grenades, armed Arabs from the village of Abu Sawira spotted and opened fire at them. The next day by the British army, and on January 11, 1948, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion.