Segal, Azaria
Son of Chaya and Meir, was born on 17.3.1922 in the village of Yavne’el in the Lower Galilee. Where he graduated from elementary school and worked in his parents’ farm. Out of a desire to build his future in intensive new agriculture in a cooperative society he went to youth training in Afikim and also focused on learning the conceptual foundations of the new society and completing its general knowledge. He spent six months settling in Kibbutz Kedma, but apparently did not find his satisfaction there and returned home. For three years he served as a patrolman and completed various Hagana courses, while finding time to help his parents in the farm and milk cows. The others were willing to help at any time, without knowing how tired and impatient they were, and even children knew that they could ask for anything they wanted because he was a good man, ready to help and to grow up. Azaria liked them and they trusted him too, feeling that he was a friend of all life. Even when he worked in the years 1946-1947 as a professional construction worker in Tiberias, he helped his parents in the agriculture after hard working days in the hot climate. As a trained target-shooter and known as one of the best snipers. Immediately after the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states and the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was called to serve in the Hagash unit, which later became the Barak Battalion of the Golani Brigade. To “foreign works” in paralysis of Arab snipers in Haifa (Wadi Nisnas and Beit Burg), ambushes for gangs around Migdal and elsewhere in the Galilee. He successfully completed a course for snipers and later took part in securing transportation on the Tiberias-Sejera road and silenced the sniper rifle fire at the settlement, as well as attacks on the concentrations of gangs in the villages of Ein-Mahal, Lubia, Daburiya and Arab al-Zabih. The snipers trained in sniper training and took part in Mishmar Ha’emek, and when the Syrian invasion began, he rushed to the Jordan Valley to protect Degania, and the Arab snipers who besieged the Tzemach police force multiplied our casualties and took it upon themselves to hurt them. Two of his men brought “Molotov cocktails” against the tanks and took the opportunity to walk by himself and capture a position and rescue him The snipers. Members saw their positions several Kliaotio successful, but eventually a sniper’s bullet hit him, too, and fell Degania Alef Bayer Independence day (05.20.1948) and was laid-rest at the cemetery in the garden.
