Ingvar, Yechezkel

Yechezkel, son of Esther and Shaul, Ingvar was born in Tarnopol, Poland on the 9th of Av, August 15, 1929. From his youth he was a member of the “Old Scouts” movement, and later guided the movement until joining the Hagana. For a year he was a guard in Afikim. After the General Assembly’s decision to partition the country, Yechezkel was one of the first to volunteer, completing a commanding course in Shfeya and then excelling in the Artillery Corps course, first as a guide and then as a Cannon Commander. As the first sergeant of intelligence in the army, he served in Jalameh and was known among his comrades as “the man of the Galilee.” On the day after Yom Kippur, he went to the Negev and joined the Givati ​​Brigade. On the eve of the holiday of Sukkot, the 14th of Tishrei, October 17, 1948, during the operation “Yoav”, he fell, when he was in an anti-battery observation at Hill 105 near Negba. Eliezer was buried in the village of Warburg. On the 20th of Tishrei, October 1, 1950 he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak