Korngold, Yosef (Yosl)

Son of Rivka and Ephraim, was born on April 14, 1926, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, and joined the Habonim youth movement at the age of 12. His eldest brother was deported to Poland and his mother succeeded in sending him to Eretz Israel. He returned to Israel in 1940 and was accepted by his relatives in Tel Aviv, where he continued his studies and completed elementary school, leaving the city and going to study agriculture in Ra’anana, but left the colony shortly afterwards and joined a youth company that trained in Kfar Maccabee. He went with her to Kfar Hahoresh and Hadera until the group left for the permanent place in Gezer, where he devoted himself wholeheartedly to agriculture, but was forced to abandon her because of illness and move to He worked in a bed industry, where he specialized as a good metalworker, and was known to be a quiet and pleasant friend, although he suffered a chronic illness, On June 10, 1948, around noon, the enemy force, consisting of a Legion Company, organized irregular forces and armored vehicles and attacked the kibbutz. Heavy enemy fire destroyed the defensive positions and paralyzed any possibility of organized resistance. The enemy managed to break into the economy and conquer it. In this battle he fell, on the third of Sivan 5708 (June 10, 1948), and in his land he found his last resting place, and left a wife, Shoshana, and a daughter