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Hirschberg, Benjamin-Ze’ev (Benny)

Hirschberg, Benjamin-Ze’ev (Benny)


Was born on July 12, 1925, in the city of Antwerp, Belgium, where he was educated and polished by profession, and Benjamin Zeev managed to reach England before the Nazis took control of Belgium. With the dismantling of the Brigade, he was returned to the British army as a soldier in the British occupation army in defeated Germany, and was discharged from service in early 1948. Three months later he was in Israel and joined the IDF as a member of the Nahal Brigade. English) of the 72nd Battalion, 7th Brigade. Binyamin Ze’ev was one of the liberators of the Western Galilee and fell on September 7, 1948, on Mount Kabul in a counterattack by the Arabs. See valid the day before his department, the Department reinforced further, the mountain in order to eliminate snipers’ nests and observation officers found him and captured him. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.

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