Melamed, Dov

Son of Ethel and Abraham Jacob. Was born in 1914 in Vizhradek, Volhynia, Russia, to a traditional family with six sons and two daughters. As a child, he studied in a “cheder” and after graduating from the Polish primary school he was sent by his parents to study at the yeshivas of Kuritz and Dubna in Volhynia. In his youth, he joined the Zionist youth movement, where he was one of the activists. At the age of 18 he went on a Zionist pioneering training program in the Zionist youth kibbutz in Tarnow, Galicia, where he spent five years. In 1938 he immigrated to Palestine as an immigrant. In the first two years after his immigration, he worked in orchards in Gan Raveh near Rishon Letzion. In March 1940 he accepted the call of the National Institutions and enlisted in the British Army. He served in the infantry and participated in the activities of his unit in Palestine and Egypt. In 1942, Dov was wounded in his unit’s training. For several months he lay in the military hospital in Be’er Yaakov. He began to recover and was discharged from the hospital, but complications caused by the injury caused a blood clot and on 30 Av, August 13, 1942, he died of a heart attack due to this clot. He left a mother and sister, and his name was immortalized in the book of volunteerism and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.