Jacobovitz, Zvi

Son of Frida and Haim Dov, was born in 1927 in the city of Berezna, Czechoslovakia. At the age of his youth, he was overcome with terror of death and destruction, when the Nazis took control of his native country. After surviving all the horrors of the Holocaust, he arrived in Italy and joined the pioneering youth movement Dror. Zvi arrived in Israel as part of Youth Aliyah in 1945. In order to become involved in the life of the country, he overcame the difficulties of adjustment. He worked with Aliyat Hanoar members in Givat Hashlosha, and was grateful to his educators and instructors, as he expressed in a Hebrew essay on the occasion of his graduation. In the kibbutz he worked in a cowshed and a shoemaking workshop. In 1946 he joined Hachash in Petach Tikvah and volunteered for training in recognition of its importance, and in 1947 he joined the Palmach’s recruits and joined the Palmach. After the Hulda Battles and Wadi Sarar (Nahal Soreq) he was sent to escort convoys on the way to Jerusalem and later participated in battles in Jerusalem. On April 4, 1948, he went with his unit to attack Augusta Victoria on Mount Scopus. The force encountered heavy enemy fences and fire and had to retreat. In this battle a heavy deer was injured in his hand and on his way to the medic hit a bullet in the head and he fell. He was buried in Sanhedria. On the 18th of Elul 5712 (18.9.1952) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.