Kochman, Gideon (Kichle)

Son of-Miriam and Kalman was born in Tel Aviv on December 12, 1929. In 1943, he graduated from the “Hashachar” elementary school in Tel Aviv and studied for another year at the “Shevach” vocational school. And later worked as an apprentice at the Sadan factory in metalworking, and in the evenings he studied at the Max Payne vocational school. He joined the Yagur Brigade and participated in the battles in Haifa, And in all the battles in the area, in the battle of Haifa, he carried a wounded friend on his back for several kilometers, and so he was saved, he was energetic and courageous, and filled important and difficult positions, pursuing peace and helping others. : “I am the only Gidon and you had ten sons, all of them would go.” Before leaving for his last journey, he argued with his parents: “I have to open the road to Jerusalem so that my brother – who is there – can come visit us .” “he wrote on his eighteenth birthday,” Only the acts are the ones who change … “On May 3, 1948, he fell in Rishon Letzion when a bomb fell on a car he was sitting with Tila his friend. “The lovers and the pleasant in their lives and in their deaths did not part.” With the gun in their hands, they tried to shoot their rifles on a plane that bombed a quiet population. He was buried in Rishon Letzion. In the booklet “In memory of fallen comrades”, published by the “Derdera-Hagiborim” group, pages were dedicated to his memory. On the 7th of Tammuz 5710 (22.6.1950) he was put to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.