Robinhoff, Isaiah (Sydney)

The son of Matilda and Menahem was born on February 21, 1926, in a poor Jewish quarter in Toronto, Canada, the son of a large family of immigrants, and the first years of his life were marked by deprivation and oppression. The rent, which affected young Sydney, may have been the first to stir up the sense of homelessness, a feeling that grew and crystallized upon his meeting with his persecuted people.was far from any Zionist activity, never belonged to a youth union. The second world, when he reached the age of recruitment at the age of 18, enlisted in the Canadian army and near the end of World War II He returned to Canada and was accepted to a high technical school – his ear was attentive to what was going on in Palestine.In the outbreak of the War of Independence and upon his first call for volunteering he left Canada, despite his parents’ objections that in Canada Jews enjoy equal rights: “In Germany, too, 20 years ago Jews enjoyed equal rights …” Yeshayahu was one of the first volunteers from abroad. He arrived in Haifa in the month of Shvat 5708, before the liberation of the city and immediately volunteered for the Palmach, served in the Yiftah Brigade, studied Hebrew steadily, and participated in the battles of Malkia, Nebi Yosha and Operation Dani. During the battle in Brafilia, he was severely wounded and died on the way to the hospital on July 17, 1948. He was laid to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.