Lemkin, Donald (“Donny”)

Son of Isaac, Isaac and Mag. He was born on the 27th of Sivan 5737 (6.7.1937) in Cape Town, South Africa. After finishing elementary and high school in his homeland, he immigrated to Israel in 1960 and settled there permanently. He tended to sports and loved music – especially South African folklore. He found his bread as deputy director of the Olympic Airways station at Lod airport. With the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign in 1956, Donald volunteered for the IDF as a member of Machal in South Africa. After that he was in Kibbutz Kfar-Blum in the framework of Nahal, and later was transferred to the Navy, but returned to South Africa three years ago, but he returned home to Israel because he felt he had settled in Israel and decided to settle there. The tension before the Six-Day War was one of the last to be called on the flag, and he was nervous in those days and thought that they had forgotten him, but on the sixth day of the battles and on the second day of the battles, he fell on the Jerusalem-Ramallah road The Kalandia Airport, in the Jerusalem area, left a wife and a young son and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, To the winners of the competition with an air rifle, and the victors were the “Hapoel” players of Mount Carmel in Haifa, and a special corner was dedicated to Donald in the press and in the South African press.