Kroytoro, Avraham

Avraham, son of Bina and Yehoshua Kroytoro, was born on 25.1.1925 in the city of Radoknany, Romania. On 29 June 1946 he immigrated to Israel and joined a training company in Rosh Pina. During the War of Independence Avraham served in the Alexandroni Brigade, where he fought in the center and later moved with his unit to the southern front. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation operation” carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged, the attack took place on the eastern flank in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle Avraham fell, on the 26th of Kislev 5709, December 28, 1948. He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.