Overfirst, Amiram

Son of Zahava and Haim, was born on 21.8.1928 in Tel Aviv, and at the end of the elementary school in Tel Aviv, he chose a pioneering agricultural course and continued his studies at the Givat Shaul school in the city. He completed his studies at the Mikveh Israel School and after joining the training group of Gvat, who was recruited in the framework of the Palmach. Amiram took part in training and tours and the paths of the country were clear to him. He had a well-developed social sense, lively and friendly, and was always the center of social life, whether in lively debate or in mischief among the guys. At the beginning of the war, following the UN General Assembly resolution, he volunteered to keep the water line in the Negev and served as a patrolman, serving six months in danger, ambushes, shooting and mines, serving in the Haemek Battalion in the Palmach and later in many combat operations in the Western Galilee . On a short vacation he had been in his home with severe fever, but before he recovered, and despite his parents’ insistence that he complete at least the healing period, he returned to his kibbutz with an eyebrow. The members of the kibbutz were called to help Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, and Amiram was also among those who helped him. On April 13, 1948, Amiram fell in a battle to defeat Kaukji forces who stormed Mishmar HaEmek, and Amiram was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Gvat.