Marx, Eliahu (Ernest)

Son of her mother and Gabriel, was born on September 30, 1916, in the Thuringia region, Germany, and came to Israel, with the rise of Nazi persecution in Germany before the outbreak of World War II, as a member of the “Hashomer Hatzair” Because he advocated general socialism, and not necessarily Jewish-Zionist socialism, during the Second World War he enlisted in the British army, served first in Baps, then worked in the manufacture of mines, and became a sergeant. He had acquired knowledge of chemistry in his free time and was ready to continue his university studies in England, but he rejected his plan because of its severity The political situation in Israel, when he was a guard, sat in the Maayan Tzvi group and became very attached to the place and his friends, and after joining the group, he found the fusion between Zionism and socialism that he had not found before. Who served as a sabotage sergeant in the Negev Brigade, fell on Operation “Yoav” on October 16, 1948, in an attempt to capture Iraq Al-Manshiyya, while he was engaged in breaking the minefield. On the 29th of Tishrei 5710 (29.9.1949) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.