Ring, Joseph (Sefi)

Son of Mini and Hermann. He was born on December 30, 1925 in Berlin, Germany. At the age of 13, he immigrated to Palestine as part of a children’s aliyah. His entire family – apart from his father and sister – perished in the Holocaust. Sefi spent two years in the children’s farm at Tel Megged in Pardes Hanna, where he studied sports and learned to play the trumpet. His picture served as a model for the economy symbol – the silhouette of a boy blowing a trumpet. At the age of 15, he moved to the “Titz” vocational school on Kibbutz Yagur where he studied the framework profession. After completing his studies he joined the British Navy and served in Alexandria. On 13 Elul, September 13, 1943, while serving on an oil vessel on the Navy, a gas balloon exploded and a fire broke out. Sefi managed to get out of the fire, but when he discovered that his friend was caught in flames he went down to save him and died himself. He was buried in the Kibbutz Ein Gev cemetery. He left a sister.