Kalev, Michael
Son of Reizel (Shoshana) and Chaim-Yitzhak, was born on 18.1.1931 in Teplitz-Sheinau, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to Israel with his family on March 16, 1939. He studied at Talmud Torah and at the Tachkemoni School in Bat Yam and later worked and studied with an optician in Tel Aviv, while at the same time continuing to study at the Bnei Akiva high school. At school, he was both gifted and humble, and as his diaries indicate at the age of 16, he examined and judged himself and tried to strengthen his character and encourage him to maintain duty and honor and devotion to the homeland and the aspirations of the nation. When he was 16, he asked to be accepted into the Hagana and was impatient with the delays he had received following his comrades and joined the Lehi underground, he was caught by British police while affixing proclamations, released on bail and for several weeks lived in philosophical resignation with his punishment. He was told that he would leave the city for a year and went to Shfeya, to his brother, when they were murdered. 5 of his former friends by British police near Ra’anana, restrained the desire for vengeance and did not return to Ha After the United Nations General Assembly resolution on partition and the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the Palmach, trained in the Arava, which was besieged, and suffered his suffering with love, and when he returned to the coastal plain he rejected his commander’s proposal to remove him from combat service Michael participated in the battles and heroically fought the distress of hunger and thirst and the fall of his best friends, the 17-year-old was an old soldier, and in the bombing of Rishon Letzion and Hulda he caused casualties and casualties from the crash at the time of the bombardment. 1948), on the verge of the second truce, standing guard at the wasp outpost near Shaar Hagai, was hit by a sniper’s bullet and fell. He was buried in a rat. On the 20th of Cheshvan 5710 (October 31, 1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
