Pasteur, Yair

Son of Hanna and Eliezer. He was born on October 18, 1919 in Givat Ada. He grew up and was educated in the village about the love of the homeland and the work of the land. Every day he went to work in a plow in the fields of the vineyards. With the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936, Yair, sixteen, joined the other youth of the moshav to guard and defend the place, and he assumed the role of guard duty filled with responsibility and integrity. He also displayed courage and in the many attacks on the Yishuv, “I saw him standing in a tense and upright line and holding the rifle as a holy thing.” In May 1938 he was invited to participate in the establishment of Hanita in the Western Galilee, the “Tower and Stockade” settlement, together with 120 other members of the “Field Companies” under the command of Yitzhak Sade, was recruited into a special group whose job it was to occupy the area, organize its guardianship and protection and pave the way for the establishment of a permanent settler body. The place and one of his letters wrote: “Hanita is a homeland fortress.” On 9 Sivan, June 8, 1938, during training at Hanita, he was killed by a grenade explosion and brought to rest in the cemetery in Zichron Ya’akov. After his death, Joshua wrote: “Tal, and the rain is upon you, the mountains shall plow, the sower shall plow, the sower shall reap, the reaper shall reap, and the keeper shall preserve.” These were the consolations of his family and his friends. The chapter of Yair’s life and heroism is presented in the book of Yizkor for the fallen of Hanita.