Mintz, Alexander (Olek)

Son of Esther and Nissan-Dov was born on 19.11.1924 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and began studying in a Hebrew school of “Tarbut”. Alexander immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1933 and completed his studies at the Ahad Ha’am school in Tel Aviv. He began to work in the office and study at the Gymnasia-Arab. After training and activities in the Hagana, he joined the Palmach in 1942, where he specialized in all kinds of agricultural work and in the use of various types of weapons, including mortars. At the same time he was active in the Haganah in the Tel Aviv area and was attracted to his return to the city, where he joined the settlement group and went to his training site in Hefzi-Baha. – “which can explain the nation’s connection to the homeland and the man to the land.” With the nucleus he moved to Tel Yosef, His writings from that period are full of humor, kindness and affection for the land, work, cheek and flora, and sarcastic sarcasm about various phenomena in the life of his group and all the material difficulties that make up romance The group joined forces with the Be’eri group and moved to permanent settlement in Dorot, and Alex resigned from the group, which invested a great deal of energy in its creation and its early stages, and returned to the city. The “Argaz” factory. After a few months he decided to leave his place of work and moved to work at the Kedma plant. On Saturday evening, after the 29.11.1947 letter from Malik-Saxes about the division of the country into two states, he said to a group of celebrators: “It is a mistake to think that we have already received the state. After a few weeks he enlisted in the special company and served with heavily guarded white convoys to Haifa and Jerusalem, guarding the roads and blocking the gaps in the forces of the Palmach, When the war began against the invading armies with the establishment of the State of Israel, he was transferred to service at the front, in the Givati ​​Brigade in the south and in the Negev, and on the night of 17-18 July 1948, Operation “Death to the Intruder” On the way to the Negev, the landing company increased the Givati ​​Brigade and was imposed on me The attack from the south failed, and the Egyptians concentrated their efforts against the landing company that had seized the village and finally had to retreat, and on that day, (18.7.1948) On the 16th of Tishrei 5710 (October 9, 1949) he was transferred to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.