Honigsberg, Zvi

Son of Aliza and Avraham, was born on May 16, 1926, to an old Zionist family in the city of Heidelberg, Germany, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1934. He completed an elementary school in Tel Aviv and studied the profession of electrical equipment. He was a member of the Palmach. When he left the house for the first time, he said: “Father, we youth belong not to parents and not to ourselves, but to our homeland.” Zvi learned to know the country throughout. For a while he was on Kibbutz Ramat Rahel, and later worked as an electrician. On December 8, 1947, he joined the Palmach, fought in Beit Dagon, Jerusalem, fought in the battles of the Castel, and participated in the battles in the Negev – Kfar Darom, Ruhama, Beersheba, and on December 28, 1948, He was shot from an enemy plane when he was driving in a jeep, at 70 km south of Revivim. He was laid to rest in the Revivim military cemetery.