Klein, Jacob-Daniel (Yak)

Son of Sarah and King (Customs) was born on June 2, 1916 in New York, USA He received a Jewish and Zionist education in a Hebrew school and joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He served as a guide, coordinator and organizer, and his friends immigrated to Israel. When the United States joined the Second World War, he enlisted in the army and served in the rank of corporal as a professional, a superb mechanic. After many years of army service and shaking, he succeeded in bringing his family (his mother, wife and son) to Palestine as tourists while he himself had to continue his journey on the same ship to Greece without a permit to enter the country. In March 1947 he arrived in Israel on an illegal immigrant ship via Greece. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz in Hatzor and underwent all the stages of adaptation and difficulties of a kibbutz during its establishment. He did his best to raise the kibbutz’s professional level. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he specialized in sabotage and served in the southern region during the period of defense against the great Egyptian attack. On May 30, 1948, when mines were placed in the fields of Kfar Menachem, a landmine exploded in his hands. He was brought to eternal rest in the Hazor cemetery. The kibbutz recalled its memory in the “Yak” booklet devoted to his memory.