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Orbach, Yechezkel-Shlomo

Orbach, Yechezkel-Shlomo


Yechezkel-Shlomo, son of Esther and Tuvia Orbach, was born on February 15, 1915, in Bedzin, Poland, where he was educated in a Hassidic-Zionist home in Bedzin and at the age of 15 was already one of the “Young Mizrachi”. In April 1940 he immigrated to Israel via Vilna, Kovno, Stockholm until his arrival in Marseilles, and from there he arrived on a French military ship to Eretz Israel. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, during the siege of the Gush, he took part guarding and protecting the place. On May 12, the Arab Legion and a large number of irregular forces carried out a heavy attack on the Gush. That night he helped transfer the wounded from Kfar Etzion to Masuot Yitzhak. The attack continued the following day, and the Legionnaires broke into Kfar Etzion and were followed by an Arab crowd. In this battle he fell, on 4 Iyar, May 13, 1948. On November 17, 1949, he was transferred to the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem with the rest of the victims of the Gush.

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