Irzek, Eliezer

Son of Haya (Hermina) and Shlomo, was born in December 1923 in the city of Baden near Vienna. He was educated in the local Jewish orphanage, and when he grew up and was about to become independent in his life, the state was annexed to the German Reich. Eliezer was saved and immigrated with the religious Youth Aliyat Hanoar and in 1940 arrived in Israel. He studied for a year at Mikvah Israel and joined a kibbutz youth group in Nes Ziona. In his desire to fulfill his service to the homeland he volunteered to the Coast Police and at the end of the 15 months of service in 1942 he returned to the kibbutz. But even his pioneering life was in bad luck. He had a long neurological disease, and when he recovered again he found no place in the kibbutz. He moved to Gedera, where he was relieved. He worked in ritual baths and married a wife. When the people mobilized for war, the two men volunteered for the Givati ​​brigade. On the 17th of Adar 2, 5708 (28.3.1948), he returned at the armored vehicle from Gedera to Tel Nof. Members of the Mghar gang seized the school next to the intersection, placed an electric mine on the road leading to Tel Nof and turned it on when the armored vehicle passed. The explosion caused the fire to explode and the intense fire from the school building made it impossible to access it. That night, Givati ​​fighters raided the school and blew it up, and the bodies of the burned armored personnel were rescued the next day. Eliezer was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot.