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Shmee (Schmitt), Aharon (Jimmy)

Shmee (Schmitt), Aharon (Jimmy)


Son of Rivka and Menahem, was born on May 29, 1926, in Haifa. He was a lively, cheerful child. His grandfather, who had the honor of returning to Israel, was raised to mitzvot, and Aharon learned the haftara for his Bar Mitzvah with astonishing ease. Aharon finished elementary school and in eighth grade he surprised his knowledge with scoring. When he was 13, he joined the Scouts movement. Although he showed a clear trait of the intellectual, preferred to study, after graduating from elementary school, frames and mechanics, and graduated with honors from the vocational school. Then he started farming. Aharon joined the Palmach recruits in Naan and participated in acts of sabotage against the British Mandate: in the explosion of bridges on the night of Wingate, and on June 29, 1946, he participated in the bombing of the Gaza Bridge and was sent to the detention camp in Rafah. And served for eight months at the Arava. After completing a naval training course and training in sabotage courses in various parts of the country, he did not reveal anything, but his evasion of the answer was polite and gentle. The training was chosen among the 15 percent who were sent to military command positions. Once, when he was treated with Molotov cocktails, he was burned and lay in the hospital. When he returned to the Palmach, he returned to the Palmach, where he was in a jeep that turned over and rolled down a mountain, the jeep flared up and Aharon was unconsciously taken out, lay in the hospital again, but his right hand was silent and refused to receive help from his mother. Despite his outstanding talent as a commander, he expressed his desire to return to agriculture after the war, and in the early years of the War of Independence he served in one of the battalions and during the Nachshon operation he joined another battalion in Hulda. Commander of a company in the Palmach Harel Brigade, was among the conquerors of Sheikh Jarrah (during the British period) and excelled in planning the withdrawal from there, which was made in broad daylight. He planned and carried out daring and surprising sabotage on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, with all the territory on both sides of the road in the hands of the enemy, in order to stop the Arab Legion from going up on Jerusalem. He fought around Mount Scopus, near the German hospital Augusta Victoria, in Ramat Rachel, and at the radar station near Kiryat Anavim. It was his company that conquered the monastery “Mar Elias”, and in this way the enemy’s pressure over Ramat Rachel was relieved. He was tall, thin, serious, and at times had a good-hearted, ironic smile of a complex nature, connected to his home and devoted to his parents. Draw drawings and caricatures. Becky in Hebrew, a lover of classical and modern music. He wrote poems and played violin. A nature lover, agriculture and sports. Sharp-minded and quick-decision. Witty, inclined to Marxism, and in light of this Torah examined and analyzed life phenomena. In his work on Shalom Aleichem, there is a clear literary understanding. In his campaign “Maccabi” in the battle to conquer the outposts north of Sha’ar Hagai, he held his position in the outpost for four full days under conditions that were higher than that of human forces. After the first truce, an operations officer and the deputy battalion commander of one of the battalions were appointed and engaged in the planning and execution of the battle in the Judean Hills – the conquest of the path leading to Kfar Etzion and the area where the Lamed- During the occupation of the “joint” outpost, the battle was the most successful, and the Arabs retreated, leaving rifles and cannons behind them (Later called “Jimmy Guns” and “Robots of Jimmy”) and a lot of equipment (in the descriptions of the battles, he was called in short, G.) At this time of battle he was in high spirits. “I was injured … they gave peace to my house …” and fell in Deir-Ibn – 50 meters from the enemy positions – on 15 October 1948. He was brought to eternal rest.In a grave in the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim. After his fall, he was promoted to captain.

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