Nir (Eichener), Yaakov

Son of Israel and Wilma. He was born on January 3, 1921 in Berlin, the capital of Germany. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1934 and joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1937. That year he began his studies at the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School. After completing his studies there, he spent a year of training in Mishmar Ha’emek and Merhavia with the “Huliot” nucleus. From 1938 he was a member of the Hagana. In late 1940 he was among the founders of Kibbutz Lehavot in Karkur. In November 1945 he was in the first detachment of Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan in the Galilee. He participated in the War of Independence and at the end of the war began working in various branches of agriculture. But in his last years he devoted himself to beef cattle. It was a man of labor who loved his work and his land. He was not a great man, and he always made do with little, believed in man and in his Lev because security was because peace would come. One day, on February 23, 1959, Syrian soldiers ambushed him and during the course of his duties he fell and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Lehavot Habashan. His kibbutz issued a pamphlet in his memory called “Ya’akov”.