Kalman, Yosef-Walter

Son of Meir. He was born in 1910 in Breslau, Germany and was one of the few Jews to serve in the Berlin police before Hitler took power in 1934. In 1934 he immigrated to Palestine alone, where he worked as a laborer in the moshavot and when the bloody riots broke out in 1936-1939 he enlisted as a guard. He served in the Kadoorie School near Kfar Tavor and was appointed as a regular escort to the bus from Kfar Tavor to Haifa, where he fulfilled his duties with joy and a sense of great responsibility, and served as a model for his friends On September 30, 1938, Tavor to Haifa, by a band of Bedouin rioters. The guards did battle with the gang, and Joseph fell. He was brought to rest in Kfar Tavor. In the Davar newspaper of November 1, 1938, Mordechai Kerniel of Kfar Tavor wrote: “Kfar Tavor, the bereaved, hopes that Mount Tabor, who witnessed the heroism of a handful of defenders against a large mob, will witness the development and expansion of the village.” A list was also published in his memory in Davar, and on the morning of October 2, 1938.