Sher, Yaakov

Son of Anita and Baruch, was born on December 25, 1921 in Torchin, Poland. Yaakov studied at a Hebrew school and excelled in all his studies, especially in Hebrew language and literature, and was active in the Betar movement and grew up in a family that aspired to immigrate to Israel. Bialik, who escaped from home and cycled dozens of kilometers to Bialystok. The principal of the gymnasium wanted to give him private lessons so that he could earn a living and study, but his father accepted his wishes until he graduated in 1939. At the beginning of the Second World War he decided to immigrate to Israel with a group of friends, but was caught on the border by the Russians and transferred to Russia (and he never saw his parents and sister murdered by the Nazis). After much suffering, hunger, disease and prison, he managed to get into the Polish army and arrived with him in Palestine via Iran and Iraq in 1944. When he learned that his battalion was going to Egypt he deserted from the Polish army. Although he was not a member of Betar abroad, he was arrested by the British during a visit to the Lehi Company, and as an illegal immigrant he was informed by the Polish military authorities and sentenced to 20 years in prison. With the help of public figures in Israel, he was released after a year and a half, and with the help of relatives in Haifa, he became a partner in the “Shekel” cooperative. Jacob quickly became absorbed in the country and his love for the homeland was expressed in the poems he wrote in the notebook he always carried with him. He was of good character, a good friend and a responsible worker. Yaakov joined the Haganah and joined the IDF at the beginning of the War of Independence, serving in the Carmeli Brigade as a sergeant sergeant in the company and most of the time he served in the line of fire On July 12, 1948, Brosh, “during the shelling of Ayelet Hashachar, came out of the trench in order to deliver a wounded soldier. A second shell again wounded the wounded man and killed Yaakov. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.