Segal, Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Aharon and Sheindl Segal, was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where his father was a cantor. With the rise of anti-Semitism in Austria, his parents decided to send their only son to Israel as part of an aliya. His parents, who remained in the Diaspora, perished in the camps. Yitzhak served in the Golani Brigade in 1946. On the eve of the Sinai War he participated in the conquest of the Sinai Peninsula and reached Sharm el-Sheikh. On the 17th of Kislev (21.11.1956), Yitzhak was wounded, was transferred by air to Kaplan Hospital but died of his wounds. Yitzhak left behind a wife and three children. He was laid to rest in the cemetery of his kibbutz.