Millionaire, Jacob-Yosef

Son of Batsheva and David. He was born in 1915 in Piotrkow, Poland, to a religiously observant family, and at the age of fourteen he joined the Hashomer Hadati movement that served in his city, where he served as a counselor and organization. For a while he worked in the group’s work unit in south Tel Aviv and in the spring of 1936 he was sent to a train course in Ramat Rachel. After completing a month in Ramat Rachel, he moved to a quarry in Neve Ya’akov. In June 1937 his group immigrated to Tirat Zvi and was among the first founders of the new settlement. The building of Tirat Zvi was full of excitement, and as one of his friends noted, “despite the many letters from home demanding that we leave the wilderness, move to the city and live like a human being, this thought never occurred …” He immersed himself in the work of the farm and protected him from abusers. In a fierce attack on the kibbutz a few months after the land’s rise, Yaakov-Yosef stood at one of the most dangerous positions and fought under a powerful barrage of fire. At the beginning of 1939 he was sworn in as an added policeman. On the 17th of Adar 1939 (March 8, 1939), he took a tractor to Tirat Zvi in ​​order to secure him, was attacked from the ambush and fell to the ground.