Rosenheimer, Yitzhak (Fred)

Son of Clara and Theodore was born on April 22, 1930, in the city of Wurzburg, Germany. On October 26, 1936, he immigrated to Israel with his parents who settled in Nahariya and established an agricultural farm there. At the beginning of the War of Independence, on March 21, 1948, when the Arabs blocked the roads of the Western Galilee, Yitzhak was among those who abandoned their work and felt for Nahariya. For three months he would sail day and night in a rowing boat with his comrades from the naval division of Hapoel. From bases that would come from Haifa and bring supplies to the isolated Western Galilee. On April 1, 1948, he was officially conscripted into the army, but stayed there, on an operation on the Nahariya coast until Aco was conquered and the siege was removed. After the liberation of the Western Galilee, he was transferred to the Carmeli Brigade, to the Tarshicha strongholds, where he served as a wireless operator. On the 20th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 20, 1948), while training to destroy a wireless device, a damaged grenade exploded in his hand. Yitzhak was seriously wounded and died shortly after being transferred to the Nahariya military hospital. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.