Parnes, Joseph

Son of-Yehudit and Gershon-Kopel was born in 1913 in the city of Lopatin, in eastern Galicia, which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. He was a member of Gordonia and Hehalutz for many years, and after a long and difficult journey, when his ship shaken for three months in the middle of the sea, he arrived in Israel as an immigrant in 1939 He worked as an agricultural laborer in Rehovot, where he joined the British Army and served in the Western Desert, Greece and Crete. At the last minute he escaped from Crete to Eretz Israel, joined the Jewish Brigade and again demanded combat duties, while he dreamed of establishing a Jewish fishing village, and was trained in Italy and the Netherlands, where he was one of the founders of Michmoret, a community of demobilized soldiers. He remained in Haifa, while working as a fisherman, on the 24th of Adar 5708 (March 5, 1948.) He was brought to rest, World at the cemetery in Kfar Vitkin.