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Nekrich, Gideon

Nekrich, Gideon

Gideon, son of Fruma and Yehuda Nekrich, was born in 1928 in Haifa. In 1947, Gideon was drafted and assigned to one of the brigade’s battalions “Carmeli”. He completed a wireless course and participated in escorting convoys to the Western Galilee. He wrote reassuring letters to his home and tried to emphasize anything that might encourage and strengthen the spirit of the family. On 16 Adar, March 27, 1948, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yichiyam. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yechiyam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but about half of them fell in battle, and Gideon was among them. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.

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