Kaganowitz, Abraham-Gershon

Son of Chaya – Rivka and David, was born in 1927 in the town of Eysishok, near Vilna, Poland. When he was five years old, he and his mother-in-law, Michael Wilensky, took him and his younger brother to his home and in 1935 immigrated with them to Israel. When Gershon finished the Aliyah school in Tel Aviv in 1941, he joined Hanoar Haoved and went to a training program in Sde Nahum and Gvat. After that, he worked for two years in a metal shop in Ein Harod and from 1945 on, at the Electric Company in Rehovot. In his modest, quiet manner, he liked his colleagues at work and in service. He continued to participate from time to time in Palmach operations and with the outbreak of the War of Independence he returned to service at the end of November 1947, immediately after the UN General Assembly decided to partition the country into two states. Gershon served in the Givati ​​Brigade, participated in the defense of Kfar Uriah, in the conquest of Jaffa and its environs, and in many other activities. He fell in battle to conquer the village of Bashit on May 11, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rehovot.