Pixel, Benjamin-Wolf

Son of Felicia and Aaron, was born in 1927 in the city of Sessergan, Transylvania. Was a refugee youth from a Hungarian prison camp whose parents disappeared during the Holocaust. After the victory over the Germans, he was transferred to an educational institution in Germany and from there he was brought to Israel as part of the Youth Aliya on the illegal immigrant ship “Customs of Nordau”. Upon his arrival he was sent to complete his education at the religious youth village near Haifa. Binyamin-Ze’ev was a gentle-minded and good-looking boy whose agony passed over him but deepened his love for him and the spirit of sacrifice for the common good. The friends he had bought in Israel recognized his qualities and admired him. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he joined the army, served in the Alexandroni Brigade and excelled as a soldier, just as he excelled as a student and a friend. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, and they counterattacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa.