Izhar (Glazin), Amiel (Ami, Amika)

Son of Sarah and Yehuda, was born on May 1, 1929 in the settlement of Beit Gan near Yavne’el in the Lower Galilee. As a baby, his parents moved to Nesher, where he grew up as a sensitive child with an impressionable soul. From an early age, he was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and taught there. Moro wrote about him: “With humility and mental alertness, he surveyed everything around him, every word that was measured and calculated, everything, small and large, weighed in the scales of reason. After graduating from Nesher, he returns to the Reali School in Haifa. When he was 16 years old, he moved with the “HaNoar Haoved” youth movement to Beit Hashita. Where he was one of the founders of a Palmach settlement group that, after the fighting ended, settled in Beit Natif, where his ambition was to work the land, to live in a cooperative and just life, and to be reflected in his notes and diaries. ! An army that knew what it was going to fight when it was needed … “- wrote in one of his letters, whose moral level was expressed in the list in which he described Balti the soldier who was forced to throw a bomb into an enemy house where there were also infants and the torment of his soul after he had fulfilled his duty. He had a special inclination to study nature, astronomy and knowledge of the country, which he had known throughout his travels in the Palmach. He joined the Palmach Brigade and was sent to the base of Ma’aleh Hahamisha, where he participated in most of the battles in the Jerusalem corridor On Saturday, March 27, 1948, in the morning hours, a large convoy left Jerusalem To bring supplies and reinforcements to the Etzion Bloc, to take advantage of the surprise, to unload the equipment quickly and return to Jerusalem, and the convoy arrived at Gush Katif without incident, but was delayed in place over the planned due to unloading and loading problems. Roadblocks and gunfire, but managed to reach as far as a room, about 2 kilometers south of Bethlehem. Instead, a large checkpoint was erected, and the armored vehicle, which broke through the checkpoints, was unable to overcome it and remained stuck there. The armored vehicle was under heavy fire and most of the fighters were wounded. In the evening Molotov cocktails were thrown on the armored vehicle and it flared up. Three fighters managed to get out of it, and the armored commander blew it up, the wounded soldiers in it, and Amiel among them. He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. In his memory, the “Hanoar Haoved” group, which he was a counselor, is called “Yizhar”. On the fifteenth of Cheshvan 5711 (15.11.1951) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.