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Rosenblum, Kalman (Almick)

Rosenblum, Kalman (Almick)


Son of Tzippora and Yaakov, was born on July 20, 1929 in Tel Aviv, where he completed an elementary school (“Tel-Nordoi”) and high school (“Shalva” and “New High School”). From his childhood, he discovered musical talent. A year and a half studied piano and the late Prof. David Shor, who heard him playing the exam, predicted that he would be a worthy pianist, but because of lack of piano in his home and because of his desire to play non-popular instruments at the time, he said: “All Jews like the violin “He continued to study music and even began to compose a work that he did not complete, and he decided to go abroad after completing his year of service, the book. After the final exams, he volunteered for a shift guard service of the Notrim. But began the service of the outbreak of the War of Independence, following the UN General Assembly resolution of November 29, 1947, dividing the country into two states: Kalman served regularly accompanied by caravans on the Tel Aviv-South line and on the route of Holon- Rishon LeZion, On January 22, 1948, a guard of seven guards opened an open van from Holon to inspect the road to Jerusalem and secure a convoy crossing, near the entrance to Yazur, and found the road blocked and hit by an Arab ambush. The road and fought against better enemy forces until they all fell, and Kalman among them was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. The memory of the “Shiva” was commemorated in memory of his friends who fell with him.

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