Katz, Dov (Bobby)

Son of Bracha and Moshe, was born on April 18, 1927 in the city of Lespazi, the region of Peshkan, Romania. He was two months old when his family moved to Ixtan, near Suceava. He graduated from elementary school and several grades in high school. Dov was a handsome and very intelligent boy, a favorite of his many friends and friends, who played football with them and engaged in various sports. In his parents’ home, he was educated on religion and absorbed Jewish tradition, and he was especially fascinated by the idea of ​​Zionism and immigration to Eretz Israel. The dream of immigration was abruptly cut off when he was deported with his family and other members of his town to the Mogilev concentration camp in Transnistria. He suffered greatly as a gift, three years of hunger, beatings, humiliation, and barely recovered from the typhus epidemic that gripped him there. Toward the end of the war he returned to his town and from there moved to Bucharest, where he completed high school, where he also joined a Zionist youth movement. In the movement he studied agriculture and underwent semi-military training in order to be correct on the day of immigration. Toward the end of 1947, Dov set out with his group on their way to Palestine, but they were caught by the British and placed behind barbed wire fences in the detention camps in Cyprus. The Haganah emissaries searched for young fighters among the camp youth and chose Dov as one of the fighters. Upon his arrival in Palestine, he joined the Palmach in the Negev Brigade, and with his comrades in arms fought against the Egyptian invader, and participated in the fifth attack on the Iraq-Suidan Police on the night of 9.7.1948. He was flown to the center of the country and underwent surgery, but on the 5th of Tammuz 5708 (July 12, 1948) he died of his severe injuries and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Petah Tikva. He left parents, a brother in Romania and a fiancée in Israel.