Opelatka, Avraham (Palti)

Son of Rachel and Nissim, was born in Jerusalem in the month of Elul in 1917. His mother was from an ancient Spanish family in Jerusalem and studied at an elementary school and two classes in the commercial high school. He arrived in Kibbutz Beit Hashita, where he joined as a member, and in 19 of his 10 years of life he was assigned to the security services, and served as a guard in 1942. His work was in the olive industry, in the kitchen And especially the Gilboa Quarry, the mountain on which he fell, a noble and humble man, carrying the burden of life with love. “Serenity, a smile and the help of polite friends noted his manner, And his friends, and at the beginning of the war he was attached to Hisham and served in the Golani Brigade. He fell on the 8th of Adar 2, 5708 (March 19, 1948), during a retreat after setting up an ambush near the village of Norris in the Gilboa, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kibbutz Beit Hashita.