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Posner, Nachum (“Redhead”)

Posner, Nachum (“Redhead”)


Son of Ya’akov-Yosef and Rachel-Gitel. He was born on April 17, 1936 in Tel Aviv. A descendant of a family of scholars. After graduating from the “Bilu” elementary school in Tel Aviv, he studied at the “Midreshet Noam” high school in Pardes-Hanna, but after two years he grew up wanting to learn a profession in order to earn a living from his work and to receive his parents’ consent To this he continued his studies at the Montefiore Technical School in Tel Aviv, where he studied in the evening and worked on the day, and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, working in radio techs, was gentle and honest, modest and humble, His devotion to his family was great and his love was immeasurably great, he was drafted into the IDF in 1954. He completed a communications course and a NCO course and was appointed to the radio operator, and was responsible for his camp in the south. His love for the homeland and his enthusiasm for everything in it were unmatched: Most of his army service was in the first place – and when his mother woke him up: “Enough, Nahum, rest a little!” He replied, “Mother, if everyone says so, who will go to the Negev? Demi is not blue any more than others. “He participated in the Battle of Qalqiliya, and was disciplined and devoted to his work and performed his duties with great efficiency, and fell in battle at the Mitla Pass in the Sinai Campaign on the 27th of March, 1956. He was buried in the military cemetery (23.10.1957) was transferred to the eternal military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and a bundle of songs called “Gal-Ad”, written by the father, appeared in memory of the son in 1960; The following year – a bundle of songs called “The Bereaved Mother”; And in 1962 – a third book of poems entitled “The Crime and the Simcha Father.” On the anniversary of his death, Nahum was commemorated in a Talmudic library in his name, and the library is located in the “Midreshet Noam” in Pardes Hanna. “He said.

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