Kahane, Yosef (Ernest)

He was born in 1923 in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934. He joined the first youth movement in Austria and the Czech Republic in 1943. At the end of the training period, he asked to be registered among the kibbutz recruits of Givat Hayim, who would come to visit the kibbutz on every vacation he had received from his unit – the Hebrew Transport Company 462. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943 he perished in the sea disaster when German planes bombed a convoy of British ships en route from the port of Alexandria to Malta in order to participate in the invasion of Italy by the Allied forces. In the bombing, one hundred and forty of the company’s 462 soldiers on board the ship “Aryanpura”, Yosef mong them. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, with a water pool at the bottom of which is engraved the names of the fallen.