Kashtar, Chaim

Son of Leah and Betzalel was born on February 4, 1932 in the city of Piatra-Neamaz, Romania, and attended the local elementary school. He survived the horrors of the Second World War and at the end of the war he set out on the way to Palestine. On August 6, 1946, he immigrated to Israel on the Haganah, together with the entire family, who settled in Holon. Where he studied mechanics. He was a member of Hanoar Haoved. Before he was 16, he joined the army. Aspired to be a professional military man. In March 1948, he underwent a training period at Kibbutz Shefayim, Rosh Pina, and one of the Palmach battalions in the Yiftah Brigade, and he excelled in battles. Gezer was located near the Ramle-Latrun road. The legion forces in the area saw it as a threat and sought to conquer it in anticipation of the approaching truce. On June 10, 1948, around noon, the enemy force, consisting of a Legion Company, organized irregular and armored forces and attacked the kibbutz. Heavy enemy fire destroyed the defensive positions and paralyzed any possibility of organized resistance. The enemy managed to break into the agriculture and conquer it. He was 16 years old when he fell in the Gezer operation, was laid to rest in the cemetery of Gezer