Rosenberg, Hanoch (Chano)
Son of Ilse and Jacob Janco, was born on February 8.2.1923 in Germany to an educated and enlightened family. Immigrated to Israel with his parents on 17.8.1933 and completed the “New High School”. He was a member of the Ha – Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement. After he was released from the training he left for Kibbutz Beit Alpha. Hanoch was an active member of the Hagana, a platoon commander, devoted to his subordinates and a friend to them. In recognition of the shared fate of the two peoples living in Israel, he wanted to learn the life of the Arabs and to find a way to their culture. He was one of the questioners and shakers, with the ability to analyze and feel moral, handsome and tall. Hanoch felt deep love for the land and the landscape and learned it in theory and practice, as a model traveler. He participated in the first trips to Masada and when the Ein Gedi disaster occurred in 1942 (when a hand grenade fell into a bonfire and killed and wounded many of the participants), he and two of his friends ran the long road from Ein Gedi to the northern Dead Sea to call for help. He was prepared to go on this path “out of wholeness all his life.” True to his worldview, he trained himself to fight with a weapon, along with his plans to live among the Arabs, and was one of the first recruits before the outbreak of the War of Independence. After the withdrawal from Jenin, the line reached the first truce in the ridge north of Jenin, with the resumption of fighting after the first truce In view of the enemy’s superiority, our forces had to retreat and set up a new line on the Gilboa ridge. In these battles, he fell in the region of Zandela-Mukibela on 4 July 1948. He was brought to eternal rest in the Beit Alfa cemetery, leaving lists that reflect the country’s thoughts on his connection to his people.