Kindman, Yosef

Son of Leah and Shimon. He was born on July 6, 1927, in Aachen, Germany, where he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv, where he completed elementary school and later went to work to help support the family. In 1945 he went on to train the Scouts and became the founding member of the Hatzerim group, and a year later joined the Palmach and served in Kibbutz Ginegar. He was a young, smiling and honest man, dedicated to the Palmach and to the idea of ​​integrating the work and the defense inherent in it, active in the society with which he was involved and in discussions about its nature and path. Palmach units to blow up eleven bridges of roads and railroads in eight places in the country, in order to detach them from the neighboring countries. Joseph went out with a Palmach unit to blow up two bridges, the railway bridge and the road bridge, which were leaning on Nachal Akhziv, the unit was hit by fire and the fourteen bridges were killed, thirteen of them were killed. The soldiers were taken to an eternal rest in a mass grave in the cemetery on the Carmel coast, where they laid their parents and sister in 1968. The bones of the 13 men were buried in the Lev of the monument erected in memory of their fallen place, Book of the Palmach “.