Rosenbaum, Eliyahu

The only son of Chaya Kreindel and Nachman was born in 1928 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Eliahu immigrated to Israel with his family in 1935 and attended an elementary school in Tel Aviv. When he was 13, he was circumcised and educated two years in son of Shemen. When he returned home, he could no longer stand the city, joined a group from Hanoar Haoved and went with her to agricultural training in Degania Aleph. There he found satisfaction in the farm, in the landscape of the Sea of ​​Galilee and in the life of the group, but when the group fell apart he was forced to return to his father’s house, which was in the meantime a second wife. After many pleadings he learned how to work for about a year in weaving, but urban life again weighed him unbearably and then enlisted in the Palmach and went to Tel Yosef, and when his friends discovered that he was suffering from hearing, they did not take him to night activities and hard jobs. In the beginning of the War of Independence in the winter of 1948, he participated in battles in the Galilee and the Negev and in the moving guard that guarded the water pipe. When he came home for a short vacation and told him that he was about to be sent for a medical examination because of his poor hearing, and his parents tried to ask him to be released, he vehemently opposed it and said, “If I do not go, and what will happen to all of us? You have nothing! ” Elijah slipped out of the house and returned to Tel Yosef. As a fighter in the “Haemek” Battalion (later the “Yiftah” Brigade), he participated in the battles of Mishmar HaEmek during the attacks of the “Rescue Army” of Kaukji, where he fell on April 13, 1948. He was buried in Tel Yosef. 5771 (27.7.1950) was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.