Itman, Yechiel

Son of Tzippora and Binyamin. He was born on March 14, 1917 in the city of Simna, Lithuania. He studied at the Hebrew school in his hometown and was active among the local Zionist youth. In 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he made his living in the orchard and the building, as a typist and driver, and was fond of his many friends in his cheerfulness and pleasant manner. In 1940, he built his house and settled in Be’er Tuvia, where he was charged with purchasing illegal weapons on behalf of the Haganah, was sentenced to seven years in prison and spent four and a half years in prison in Jerusalem and Akko, The difficult ones managed to maintain a degree of joy and a strong spirit and took advantage of these years to read and develop In which both the Jewish and Arab prisoners, and even the English policemen, were imprisoned in the prison, and was often chosen to represent the prisoners before the prison authorities. And a truck driver in Moshav Beer Tuvia for a long time was also outside the walls of the prison for police supervision, but this did not prevent him from fulfilling positions on behalf of the Haganah “And among other things he led illegal immigrants from the ship” Shabtai Luzhinsky “to the shores of Palestine on March 12, 1947, And the landing environment. On the 28th of Av 5747 (14.8.1947), he left in a truck laden with agricultural produce from Beer Tuvia to Tel Aviv and when he reached Abu Kabir in the outskirts of Tel Aviv he ran into a checkpoint erected by Arabs. After he managed to pass through two stone barriers, his car overturned at the third checkpoint, was hit by the Arabs and killed on the spot. He was buried in Be’er Tuvia. He left a wife and two children. His name was immortalized in “Leshkaram” published by Moshav Beer Tuvia, Iyar 5709.