Meisel, Eitan

Eitan, son of Yehuda and Hannah Meisel, was born in 1931 in Jerusalem, to a family of pioneering workers from the Third Aliyah. He completed his army training at Sha’ar Ha-Amakim when the War of Independence was already in effect and together with his comrades-in-training was sent to help Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan in the Upper Galilee, on the Syrian border. Eitan was wounded in the hand and felt the pain in the muscles of his hand until the day he fell. Half a year later, he and his fellow members of the hachshara, who were the nucleus of settlement, moved to the outpost in the occupied Arab village of Beit Jiz in the Jerusalem corridor. On 14 Elul, (27.8.1950), he fell with three of his friends and was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.