Levin, Yaakov

Yaakov, son of Dvora and Yitzhak-Dudi Levin, was born on April 14, 1924, in the town of Talien, near Pinsk, Poland. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1935. During the Second World War Yaakov was drafted into the British Army. When he was released in 1945, he went to study at the teachers’ seminary at Beit Hakerem. As a qualified teacher, Yaakov moved to the Beit Hashita school to be close to the village. There, he became a member of the kibbutz and was loved by his students. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, Yaakov strove to enlist despite the necessity of his important educational activity so at the end of the school year he was drafted. Yaakov served in the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in battles in the south. During Operation Yoav, the breakthrough to the Negev, he was in a battalion that attacked the Egyptian “junction” system, and was among those that fell on the 14th o Tishrai, October 17, 1948. Yaakov was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery.