Levita, Nimrod
Son of Leib and Hannah. He was born on December 9, 1925 in Ein Harod. The first four years of his life were spent in Ein Harod, but immediately after the 1929 riots, his parents took him to Poland on a mission to the Hehalutz movement. His studies at the Ein-Harod-Tel-Yosef joint school excelled in the exact subjects, he was alert to sociological and movement issues, and he had a passion for agricultural subjects. From his childhood he continued to work in the economy, filled important positions in the children’s company, took part in the Gadna training course and also worked in youth training and under his guidance. Because of his activity as a youth counselor and the vitality of his work in the economy, his enlistment in the Jewish Brigade was delayed in 1945 and his enlistment in the Palmach was delayed until the kibbutz was finally approved by the kibbutz in 1946. He was sent to the department in Ramat Rachel, Palmach and kibbutz life near the city. In “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1946) he fought with the British soldiers who broke into Ramat Rachel. He was wounded in the hand but managed to free himself from the soldiers and avoid them. He served in a special position of the Palmach in Jerusalem and in September he was transferred to a company that was stationed in Giv’at Brenner, and a short time later he became commander of his company – Company B in the Palmach’s second battalion, which first landed in the Negev. The commander of the southern Negev region, commander of the Bir-Asluj occupation, participated in major operations in the Negev and was among the commanders and organizers of the expedition that preceded Operation Ovda and the occupation of Eilat, where he served as intelligence officer of the Negev Brigade – Palmach until its dissolution and later – as intelligence officer of the lowland district. In all his actions – and during the most bitter and bitter hours – he acted with courage and courage. When he was appointed by the kibbutz secretariat to leave for the United States when he was discharged from the army, he rejected the proposal by saying that his desire to work in the economy – At least for a year, after a week’s vacation of work in the economy and trips in the area and returned to service, and on the fourth day after his return, on the 14th of Kislev, December 14, 1949, , In order to establish points for new settlements in the area of the school, and his jeep was found on a mine on the Bet Guvrin road, and Nimrod also found his death in the course of his duty. A daughter of Chaim Enzo Sereni, and a book entitled “The Diary of Ein Harod,” dedicated to his memory, appeared in the 1930s. A street in Be’er Sheva bears the name “Three Sons of Ein Harod” with a memorial plaque for Moshe Yitzhar, Hillel Lavi and Nimrod Levita (the first two fell during the War of Independence)
