Manin, Yosef

Son of Shoshana (Rose) and Aaron, was born in 1922 in Damascus, the capital of Syria. When he was three years old, he was orphaned from his father and after completing elementary school he went to work and became his mother’s sole support. In 1942 he moved to the northern border with the help of Palmach youth, and worked in the building and other jobs as a metalworker and was sent to the mother for two years, serving as a guard in the kibbutz. He later moved to the Palmach and was one of the few adults between the ages of 18 and 19. He participated with them in training, work and travels, and was caught up in their youthful enthusiasm, and as was presumably contributed to the transfer of illegal immigrants through the northern border in Netivot, which he knew from his own experience. His ambition was to bring his mother to the liberated homeland, and in the meantime tried to maintain contact with her through his relatives in Palestine. In the winter of 1948, at the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was joined with his regiment to the Harel Brigade and served alongside convoys on the way to Jerusalem, during Operation Harel in the enemy attack on the rear of one of the convoys on the 20th of Nissan 5708 (April 20, 1948). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim.