Pinchas, Pines

Son of Yitzhak and Devorah. He was born on March 2, 1938 in Tel Aviv and completed the Hasmonean elementary school, and after graduating began to work in his father’s hardware trading house to help him. In addition to his active participation in these two sectors, Pines was an avid athlete and every leisure hour dedicated to sports activities. Pines joined the IDF in late 1956 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. He successfully completed a platoon commander’s course and a parachuting course, and he participated with his unit in routine security operations, and his commanders defined it as “six battles in the full sense of the word. He was the most courageous of his kind, loved by his commanders and subordinates. He became a sergeant in his company and was one of the best fighters in the battalion. “After his regular service he was assigned to a reserve unit of the Paratroopers and served there until his dying day. He volunteered for every mission, tried to prove that despite being “urban” It does not fall short of its combat capability and its skill in using weapons from settlement structures He was rewarded with the Six Day War, and after years of reserve duty he was offered the opportunity to move to another corps, and he responded angrily: “I will be removed from the Paratroopers only on a stretcher.” On September 3, 1969, , Who was on the last day of his reserve service, and was expecting his arrival at the house, Sgt. Pines fell in battle, and on the same day he headed for a dangerous ambush and opened fire on an enemy who had ambushed him and his soldiers in pre-positioned positions near the Adam Bridge. His third son died in tragic circumstances about a year after the fall of Pines. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Brigadier General Rafael Eitan wrote in a letter of condolence to the family: “I have known Pines since his service in compulsory service, and I remember his company very well from that period. Under his command – – – in that night activity we had an encounter with the enemy and it was also the first time Pines, who encountered the enemy in this kind of activity – – Pines was educated as a paratrooper and a devoted and responsible warrior, A reservist did not affect his ability as a commander in the paratroopers, and so he fell in an onslaught against an enemy, because that was the right thing at that moment And they will be proud of their sons who were brave and faithful and devoted to their homeland. ” The commander of the brigade in the Jordan Valley, in which Pines worked with his unit, wrote: “I was immediately aware of the situation, I had no doubt that if Pines was the commander, he would not allow those who tried to attack him. The enemy, organized his men in the shelter, and immediately went out with a squad to destroy the terrorists. For many years I had known Pines, who was cheerful and energetic, a figure whom everyone loved and appreciated, Cheerful and arrogant in his leadership. ” After they fell, a book was published in his memory called Pines; A traveling “Magen” in his name was handed a handball tournament held by the Country Club in the presence of his comrades in arms and his handball team; His name is commemorated on the monument commemorating the paratroopers who fell in Israel’s wars.