Rosenfeld, Yosef

Son of Rachel and Shmuel. He was born on June 6, 1926 in Płońsk, Poland. In 1933, when he was seven years old, the family immigrated to Palestine. Yosef grew up in Neve Sha’anan in Haifa where he attended elementary school and later in a vocational school. After graduating he began to work, and during World War II he worked in mechanics in military camps. In July 1944, he enlisted in the Palmach, joined the Company V. He served in the Ein Harod farm, and during the anti-British struggle he participated in activities directed against the “White Paper” countries. “It was simple, but it was involved in the practical wisdom of life, and there was a special and rare grace in this combination that restored the hearts of us all.” Or, on June 16, 1946, the “Night of the Bridges”, the plan was to blow up eleven bridges of roads and railroads in eight places in the country, in order to cut it off from the neighboring countries. Yosef went out with a Palmach unit to blow up two bridges, the railway bridge and the road bridge, which were leaning on Nachal Akhziv. The unit was hit by fire and the thirteen men were killed. Yosef was laid to rest in a mass grave in the cemetery on the Carmel coast. He left a brother and three sisters, and in 1968 the remains of the thirteen men were transferred to a grave that was engraved in the heart of the monument. “The Palmach Book”.