Kirland, Nahum

Son of Tovah and Ze’ev, was born on October 30, 1930 in Nesher, near Haifa, and grew up in a house steeped in a pioneering spirit: Nachum attended elementary school in Yagur-Nesher and went to Kibbutz Negba for a year. In the fall of 1947, he volunteered to go to Hanita and to defend the northern border, demanding that he be sent out of the training so that he could participate in the defense of the road and the convoy to Yehiam. To bring supplies to the besieged kibbutzim in the Western Galilee Nahum served in the Carmeli Brigade, participated in the retaliation operations for the village of the murderers in Balad al-Sheikh after the massacre He took part in the responsible and difficult guarding of the Harva hill, opposite the Nesher factory, which is often in the ambush, where he met with his father, who was also there at night, and was proud of him. “Was sent to participate as a saboteur in the occupation of the police in the IDF, which controls the Elon-Hanita highway, and in this battle he fell on the 16th of Nissan, April 25, 1948. He was buried in Ayalon, on the 7th of Tammuz, 22.6.1950, – The military cemetery in Haifa.