Nageli, Chaim

Son of Zisela and Jacob, was born on September 15, 1913 in the city of Beloi, Latvia. Was educated in the spirit of Jewish tradition and the values ​​of Zionism, and even agricultural work was not foreign to him, since his father had his own farm and an auxiliary farm near his home in the city. Chaim was one of the activists of the Zionist movement in his town and aspired to immigrate to Palestine. At the age of 17, he was a father and a year later his mother, and since then he has been the main breadwinner of his family. In 1935 Haim immigrated to Israel with his girlfriend and joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. Haim invested all his energies and energy in plantations and acorns, and took on responsible defense roles as part of training the Palmach and the Naturim. During the days of El Alamein he was sent to the south of the country for military training. He was released for a while and returned to work in the farm and volunteered for the fish farming project that was at the time of its inception. In the meantime, he was ordered to go abroad to bring immigrants, but the British caught him at the back of the ship. At the beginning of the War of Independence, he served as a field guard and as a sabotage officer, and was drafted into the Haganah’s elite brigade. He was called to serve as a commander in charge of the Azzayat Regiment and, with his men from the Oded Brigade, stood stubbornly against the Syrians and fell on the 19th of Tammuz 5707 (19.7.1948), when the enemy was taken down by the enemy. – He was buried in the cemetery in Kfar Giladi and left a wife, Sonia, and two children.