Herling, Tzvi

Son of-Sarah and Moshe was born on October 6, 1927, in the city of Lember, in southern Germany, where his parents immigrated to Israel in 1936. Zvi began studying at the elementary school of the Mizrachi stream in Bnei Brak, He was a member of the religious youth movement “Bnei Akiva” and wanted to go to the village and live in the kibbutz, and since 1942 he was a member of the Haganah and belonged to the ” A unit of religious youth in the Gush Dan area and joined forces with his comrades in the IDF, and participated in many activities and was sent with his unit to the vicinity of Jerusalem and participated in battles in Atarot, Tzuba, Neveh Due, and Castel looking for Har Tuv Halamed department. In this operation, during the retreat, he remained behind his friends and left Haifa on the retreat. After months of fighting in this area, he returned to Sharon, joined the ranks of the Alexandroni Brigade, took part in the conquest of Arab Kfar Sava, Tantura and Kakon, and after the occupation of the Tel Litwinski camp became a warehouse. On the 3rd of Tammuz 5708 (10.7.1948) he went with his unit to the “Danny” operation to conquer the Lod-Ramle area, fell on the way from the base in Kfar Yona, in the Arab village of Rantia, and was brought to rest in the Netanya cemetery. Every act of its actions, as civilian and military, tense was a line of simplicity “