Philin, Aaron (Ahronchik)

Son of Miriam and Gabriel, was born on April 17, 1911 in the city of Armavir in southern Russia. Due to the revolution and the civil wars that followed, the family went to Turkey via Turkey and after two years of wandering they reached it and established a farm in Metula in 1923. After about five years, the family moved to Petah Tikva, and Aharon worked as a farmer, as a carpenter and as a carpenter, and finally found his place as a hired truck driver. In 1936 he worked for the British army in the vicinity of Nablus and Hadera as a mine detector, which the Arab rioters had planted on the roads of the security forces. In 1940 he left his wife and two children and joined the British army. He served in Egypt and Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon, and was liberated in 1946. In 1947 he joined the Nativ company in Petah Tikva. In the winter of 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, he arrived for transportation services in the army and was the first member of his company to volunteer food for besieged Jerusalem, On the 26th of Adar, April 6, 1948, he fell near the Roshimiya Bridge in Haifa and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.