Jacobovitch, Jacob-Chanoch

Son of Kriesel and Avraham, was born in 1920 in Poland. He had a popular education and a locksmith according to his profession. Immigrated to Israel in 1939. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the “Baps” companies and in due course went to the Jewish Brigade. He served in the Second Battalion and participated in all his activities. Upon his discharge from the army, he joined the Wingate organization of discharged soldiers who settled in Ramot Naftali. Yaakov worked in the small metal workshop that was established in the kibbutz and filled it with his merry songs, which sang from morning to evening. With the worsening of the security situation following the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the land, he became a soldier again, defending his settlement, and fell in a fire incident on April 5, 1948. He was laid to rest at the Ramot Naftali cemetery. He left a wife who, three days after he fell, died too.