Livel, Baruch

Son of Efraim and Sarah, was born on the 19th of Nisan 5707 in the city of Czernowitz, Romania. He completed high school and excelled in mathematics. He helped his friends who had difficulty math exams. He loved the book and at every leisure time studied the reading. In times of distress, after the Second World War, he was very interested in his poor brothers and helped them by donating and distributing donations among the needy. In the midst of the battles in Israel, in 1948, he immigrated to Israel, enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. Baruch participated in the battles and went down with the brigade to the southern front. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered and attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle, he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was brought to rest, with his comrades in battle, in a mass grave in Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.