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Salor, Yechiel

Salor, Yechiel


Son of Shoshana and Zvi. He was born in Petach Tikva in 1928. At the age of three, the family went to the father who worked as a physician in Morocco, and in 1935 the mother returned to Morocco with Yehciel and his father. When he was six years old, he forced his parents to send him back to Eretz Israel, where he and his brother Efraim were educated in Tel Litvinsky (Tel Hashomer). Yechiel excelled in his studies, and his parents sent money to finance his studies, but after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the young hachshara in Degania Bet, where he soon became acquainted with the students, the instructors, the teachers and all the members of the agriculture he came into contact with. He did not tire of the field and his strong body, and was not affected by the heat of the sun in the Jordan Valley, and on the Sabbath he would go out with his friends for many miles, and soon he knew every rock and wadi in the area. A short time later he was chosen to take part in a course for commanders and together with the other candidates for a course he was chosen to participate in one of the Palmach’s operations. The “Night of the Bridges” was held in the framework in which Palmach units set out to blow up eleven bridges of roads and railways in eight places in the country, in order to disengage them from the neighboring countries. The unit encountered fire and the fourteen Palmach members were killed, Yechiel among them. They were killed when the fire hit the explosives they were carrying, and the train bridge was destroyed by the soldiers who took cover. He was brought to rest in a mass grave in the cemetery on the Carmel coast. In 1968, the remains of the thirteen men were transferred to a grave that was dug in the heart of the monument erected in memory of the fallen.

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