Katz, Tzipora

Daughter of-Bracha and Israel-Chaim was born on the 10th of Tishrei 1921 in the city of Piatronimetz, Romania, where she graduated from the local Hebrew elementary school and joined the Bnei Akiva movement. In 1945, she immigrated to Israel and joined the “Mechora” group in Kfar Hassidim, where she moved to Kfar Etzion at the end of the training year. She was quiet, working in the kitchen and sewing. During the siege of the village, she participated in training and completed a first aid course. Zipora took part in the guard and held every role devotedly. In the last hours of the third day of Iyar 5708, she worked and provided first aid to the wounded in the shelter of the “German Monastery” in Kfar Etzion, and she encouraged the wounded spirit, and on several occasions she left the shelter and heard the sound of wounded from the forest. The next day, on May 13, 1948, when the Jordanian Legion was deployed to Kfar Etzion when they could not enter the monastery They blew up the building, the only shelter. Many of the wounded and friends were buried in the rubble, including Zippora. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949), she was transferred to the eternal rest to the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.