Salzman, Yair

Son of Leah and Shmuel, was born on January 20, 1927, in Tel Aviv. He was a graduate of the Shalva Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, with outstanding musical talents and studied with the best teachers in Israel. From the age of 14 he was a member of the Haganah. In the service year after completing the Gymnasium, he served as a liaison between senior officers of the Haganah and for a time was also a guard. At the end of the year he went to Paris to study music. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he moved to southern France, worked in the organization of Aliyah Bet and in the training of the Gahal, and when the fighting broke out in the south, he rejected his superiors’ pleas to remain. He returned to Israel on the first immigrant ship and immediately joined the Palmach. He was sent to serve as a guide but was transferred to a combat unit at his request. On November 18, 1948, he was seriously injured and died of his wounds at the Tel Litvinsky Hospital on the 21 th of December 1948. He was taken to a rest – Forever in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.