Hosh, Amnon (Letsi)

Son of Magdalena and Shmuel Was born on 27.8.1928 in Arad, Transylvania, Romania, and immigrated to Israel in 1946. In his hometown, he studied in a Romanian school, although his mother tongue was Hungarian. Amnon was quiet by nature. When he immigrated to Israel, he joined the youth company that was in the hachshara in Afikim. He became involved in the banana plantations and found interest in his studies. He joined the Palmach on 29.6.1946 and was taken to detention in Latrun, where he was included in the list of suspects of the British Mandatory government, and joined the kibbutz in 1947. During the War of Independence he served in the Harel Brigade, he volunteered in all of the brigade’s operations, he was a talented reconnaissance officer, without fear or an unusual fighting spirit, who participated with his unit in Operation Horev to expel the Egyptian army from Israel and fell in battle on the Rafah outposts on January 4, 1949 ), With a bomb fragment. He was buried at a military ceremony in the Kinneret on the 5th of Tevet 5709 (5.1.1949), and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.