Rapoport, Bezalel (Celik)
Was born on August 22, 1930, in Kfar Saba. When he was one year old, his parents moved to Moshav Herut in the Tel Mond bloc and settled there. Bezalel completed nine school classes, was educated on the values of the labor movement and from a young age stood out for its honesty and willingness to come to the aid of others. After he began studying at the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, he contracted ear infections, underwent surgery, and was forced to return home. A year later he had to stop his studies again because of a second operation. In the meantime, the family moved to Netanya where he began studying frameworks, but he found no satisfaction in work and life in the city, and although his experience proved that agriculture was not good for his health, he left before he was 16 years of agricultural training in Yamit. He devoted himself to organizing the group, studied agriculture, collected professional books from home and took them with him to his and his friends. Bezalel found great satisfaction in agriculture and was Simcha in his work in the farm. Once again, the defect interfered with his health and forced him to work in lighter jobs. In 1947, he joined the Palmach in 1947. When he began the War of Independence, he took over the management of the training and took part in its activities in Neve Yam, Haifa, Tantura, and Givat Olga. Before his recovery, that the many needs of training and the need for urgent action to help the comrades did not give him peace, he always felt the need to get out of the operation among the former and to withdraw from it among the latter During the service he was transferred to the Navy and served in the landing company, Death to the Intruder, “in an attempt to break through the Negev And the attack on the south was a failure, and the Egyptians concentrated their efforts against the landing company, which was holding on to the village and finally had to retreat. , On the 18th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948) On the ninth of Tishrei 5710 (9.10.1949) was brought to rest with some of his friends in the cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak.
