Lieberman, Avidov

Son of Mina and Joseph, was born on the 18th of Av, 5708 (4.8.1928) in Haifa. From the beginning of 1933 he moved with his family to Kiryat Haim. Where he visited kindergarten, completed elementary school, continued to study at the vocational school of the Technion in Haifa. As a member of the Gordonia youth movement, he was one of the founders of the commune in a kibbutz in Kiryat Haim. When he was 14, he joined the Gadna and completed a course for commanders in a children’s village. Among his friends he stood out as a boy full of life and cheerfulness. In 1946 he enlisted in the Palmach, as a trained member of Ramat David, continued to train and train in the Palmach. In January 1948, with his training for Revivim in the Negev and joined to one of the battalions in the Negev Brigade, he participated in escorting the convoys and the Beit Eshel-Halutza battles. Avidov completed a course for departmental medics, and then a course for class paramedics. During his training at Rothschild Hospital he participated in the conquest of Haifa. After the occupation he volunteered for a commando company and was transferred to the regiment as a company medic. On the night of June 2-3, 1948, during the “Philistine” operation, the Givati ​​forces attacked the Egyptian alignment near the Ashdod Bridge (the “Ad Halom” bridge today). The assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the ground and halted their advance northwards. In this battle he fell on the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), running toward a wounded member. Upon his withdrawal, his comrades put his body in a cave near the railway station. After a year and a half, the body was found in the same place, next to the bodies of his comrades who fell in the same battle. The bodies were transported on the 7th of Cheshvan 5707 (7.11.1949) to a eternal rest in a mass grave in Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.