Kaplun, Oded

Son of-Bracha and Yerucham was born in Rishon Lezion on December 19, 1925. He studied at the elementary school in the village and at the Max Payne vocational school in Tel Aviv, where he began working as an apprentice in a factory and joined the ” “His many friends loved him and they respected him and he had a judge and a judge, and as a member of” HaNoar HaOved “he went to training in Alonim and Givat Haim. When he was 18, he enlisted in the British Army and served in naval workshops in Egypt. Upon his release, he returned to Rishon Letzion and worked as a contractor in the Electric Company. He invested his energy in the revival of a plot of land that his grandfather also tended and cultivated. After the UN General Assembly decided on November 29, 1947, to divide the country into two states and the outbreak of the War of Independence in its wake, and even before the establishment of a regular army in Israel, Oded enlisted in the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in all battles of his battalion. 1948) participated in the “Hametz” operation to encircle Jaffa, in which the battalion attacked Tel Arish, and the battalion conquered the hill, but before it could take place, the Arab forces, supported by Jaffa reinforcements, Oded was brought to rest at a military ceremony at the Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.