Hillel, Jacob

The youngest son of Mazal and Avraham, was born on November 13, 1929 in Tiberias, and was nicknamed by all in the name of affection Zaki, who moved with his family to live in a village in Ramat Aharon near Rehovot. And then another year in the Continuing Class at Kibbutz Givat Brenner, where he devoted himself to his studies and especially to the study of the Bible, he liked to study the books of the prophets and to rethink them. Jacob continued to study at the vocational school named for Max Payne (an electrician). He joined the Mahanot Ha’olim youth movement and was a member of the Haganah in Rehovot. At the beginning of the War of Independence, with the call to the 17-year-olds to enlist, he left the school bench, stood in the ranks of the fighters and served in the Carmeli Brigade. He was sent to Ein Hamifratz and later was attached to one of the units and sent to Haifa. Jacob fell in the street battles in the conquest of Acre on May 17, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.