Levi , Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Tema and Mendel, was born in 1912 in Poland, in the town of Sanok in Central Galicia, Lvov District, where he studied basic baking and worked there, and when he joined the Polish army he took an officer’s course and served as an officer. Sannock, where several thousand Jews lived, was conquered by the Germans on September 9, 1939. The most able Jews among the Jews were recruited for forced labor and the remainder were deported across the San River to the territory of the Soviet Union, to which most of Eastern Galicia was annexed. In the summer of 1941, an open ghetto was established in Sanok, where the Jews of the city and refugees from the area were rounded up together with about 13,000 people, most of whom were sent to the Zaslava concentration camp and from there To the Belzec death camp, where they were murdered in gas chambers, and Yitzhak survived the events of the Second World War but was left alone, his wife and family all perished in the Holocaust, and only he saw the day of liberation. In May 1948, when the Arab armies invaded Israel immediately after the declaration of independence, Yitzhak was drafted into the 32nd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, the No. 3 Brigade of the Hagana, and in the following weeks he fought with his battalion Many in the central region. In July 1948 Yitzhak participated in a battle in Migdal Tzedek in Operation Danny. In the tower of Tzedek, near Rosh Ha’ayin, there were large quarries in the British Mandate period, in which materials were prepared for the construction of the settlements in the Dan region. Already during the events of the 1930s, the quarries were attacked by the Arabs of the area, and the Haganah operated there and made it possible for them to continue their work. At the beginning of the War of Independence, the Arabs again took control of the quarries, nearby Rosh Ha’ayin, and the area of ​​the Yarkon springs, where the water pumps stood on the water line to Jerusalem and a railway station. Due to the threat to nearby Petah Tikva and the rest of the settlements in the Dan region, at the end of May 1948, Irgun fighters attempted to conquer the area, but with the opening of the “Danny” operation to break through the road to Jerusalem it was decided to retake the area. “Was assigned to the Alexandroni Battalion 32. On July 12, 1948, the fighters succeeded in capturing the area of ​​Migdal Tzedek and Rosh Ha’ayin, and in the following days the Jordanians and the Iraqis conducted a counterattack with armored vehicles, but the Israeli fighters managed to repel the attack. The forces that operated in the “Dani” operation to conquer Ramle and Lod were protected from the back of the rear on July 15, 1948, when the Tower of Justice was bombarded from the air, To Isaac. Thirty-three years old in his fall. Yitzhak was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.