Jacobovitz, Haim-Yehuda

Son of Pnina-Passel and Anshel, born in 1927 in Karabato, Czechoslovakia, studied in an elementary school in his city, and in 1941 was sent to Poland with his parents, but two months later the parents succeeded in escaping with Chaim and returning home in Czechoslovakia , And his family was deported to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. His parents perished in the Holocaust, but he and his sisters survived and returned to their hometown, where Yidel did not find a friend or teacher and left the city and moved to the Sudetenland until 1948, On board the Etzel ship. Shortly after his departure, Haim-Yehuda was drafted into the IDF, was posted to the 33nd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade and descended with the brigade to the Negev, and during Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja Pocket”. On the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya, the Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took control of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. He was buried in Faluja, and a year later his body was taken to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery. Battalion family stated, inter alia: “It was the hardest battle which took part Gdodno – experienced fighting – and we knew we meet it this time too. With courage that we did not know yet, Judah fought until the enemy’s bullet hit him. “He was followed by three sisters and a brother.