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Lichtenstein, Eliyahu (“Falah”)

Lichtenstein, Eliyahu (“Falah”)


Son of Jacob and Pnina. He was born on September 9, 1937 in Jerusalem and was a descendant of a family of rabbis from Transylvania and completed his studies at the Yesudei HaTorah school in Tel Aviv and then studied for two years at the Torah and Malcha yeshiva in Kfar Avraham. “Bnei Akiva” and was one of the members of the religious kibbutz in the “Alumim” nucleus in Sa’ad, as it was called, because a man of the land was and was in need of an agricultural worker who would turn to the Labor Order and demand it. In January 1956, the commander of the Sinai Campaign was killed in the Battle of an enemy stronghold on 25 October 1956. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Shachal and on the 28th of Kislev B Tishrei 5758 (23.10.1957) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and his memory was included in the pamphlet Kislev-Tevet 5717 of Amudim (the religious kibbutz newsletter) and in Uri Milstein’s book “The Wars of the Paratroopers “He said.

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