Rosenfeld, Aharon

Son of Rosa and Shlomo, was born in 1929 in Potnik, Hungary. He is a member of a family of religious guardians from descendants of well-known rabbis. We will be educated in the community’s school and Talmud Torah and afterwards in a yeshiva in Budapest. When the Fascist regime took control of Hungary, it infiltrated the Fascist Youth Organization as one of their own and worked underground to save Jews. When he was betrayed and sentenced to death, he managed to escape to a neighboring country. His relatives wanted to invite him to America, but he preferred to embark on the illegal immigration route to immigrate to Palestine. In the Haifa port he fought with the British soldiers and was sick and exhausted by shrapnel and gas being carried to Cyprus. When he immigrated there under a quota permit in 1947 he was sent to the agricultural institution “Neve Amiel” in Sde Ya’akov. In the spring of 1948 he participated as a combat commander in the battles to liberate Safed and protect the Jordan Valley. He was later joined by the navy and served in the landing company. On the night of 17-18 July 1948, Operation “Death to the Intruder” was carried out in an attempt to break through the Negev. For this operation, the landing company increased the Givati ​​Brigade and was ordered to attack the village of Beit ‘Afa to the north, together with the Givati ​​company that attacked from the south. The landing company broke into the village and clung to its north, but the attack from the south failed. The Egyptians concentrated their efforts against the landing company that had seized the village and eventually had to retreat. This battle fell on the 11th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948). On the 9th of Tishrei 5710 (October 9, 1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.