Markovitz, Jacob

Son of Zipora and Nachman-Yehuda was born in February 1928 in the city of Iza, in Transcarpathian Ukraine, Czechoslovakia. When he was three years old, he was circumcised by his mother. Educated in the spirit of tradition. During the Nazi occupation he lived in labor camps between 1944-1945, first in Germany and then again in Czechoslovakia. After leaving the camp, his father, who was with him in the Theresienstadt camp, died. After his release, he underwent training in Hungary and Austria and immigrated to Israel in 1946 aboard the Enzo Sereni. He joined a youth company in Neve Eitan where he studied frameworks. Yaakov was absorbed in the company without absorption difficulties, but due to his poor health (he was diagnosed with lung disease), he was forced to remove him from the Beit Shean Valley and transfer him to an institution in Bnei Brak. He was modest, diligent in studies and work, and pleasant in his ways. He did everything without noise and boasting. The grace of the “Avrech Meshi” was on his face. He received his military training before the outbreak of the War of Independence in a Haganah company in Bnei Brak. Yaakov served in the Alexandroni Brigade and fell in an attack on Arab Kfar Saba on 4 May 1948. He was laid to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.