Maimon, Naftali (Pilia)

Son of Bella and Nathan. He was born on November 3, 1922 in Libau, Latvia. In 1935 he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel and settled in Kiryat Motzkin. Naftali attended elementary school there and the “BaMaleh” high school in Haifa. In his youth he was active in Maccabi Hatzair, loved music and devoted his free time to playing the piano. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Engineering Corps. In addition to his official functions, he devoted himself to musical activity, organized concerts for soldiers and even played piano for them. During his service in Italy, on 26 Tishrei, October 13, 1944, he was killed in a car accident and brought to rest in the British military cemetery in Naples. He left his parents, sister and brother, Benjamin, who died in 1968 in the Dakar submarine. His name was immortalized in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” in 1946 and in the book “The Volunteer Book.”