Shtarkman, Yehoshua-Heschel (Zvi)

Son of Yitzhak and Rivka. Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 15, 1926, he immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1936. Graduated with honors from the Tachkemoni School and studied at the Geula High School. He was active in the Bnei Akiva youth movement. For a short time he became an instructor in the movement and thanks to his qualities and devotion he was appointed a member of the committee. Participated intently in all its organizational and cultural activities. He also joined the Hagana, and in the framework of the Gadna, he passed the training period, by nature, was serious, serious, and had no problem without overcoming it and white, and expanded his reading comprehension on questions of literature, religion, philosophy and science In his attempts to solve difficult problems in his life, he wanted to reach the sources of religious research. He stopped his high school studies a year before the final and went to study at Kfar Haroeh. At the same time, he studied the general studies on his own and after a year passed the matriculation exams. He then joined the religious group “Alumim” (now the Saad Group) and lived there for a year. Life there influenced his way of life and he became a vegetarian, but after the year he also changed his religious worldview and then left the group and went to study at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa in the Department of Building Engineering. With the declaration of the state he enlisted and as a soldier saw his duty as an undeniable duty. He fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him with a sense of discipline and responsibility and his influence on his comrades was great because of his clear and intelligent position. He firmly believed in the destiny of the Jewish people, and in the novel he left behind, which attests to strong and fruitful imagination, expressed his views and aspirations. Despite his gentleness, he accepted the cruelty of war because he regarded it as a necessary means of achieving a noble goal. Served in the engineering corps as a corporal. Participated in the retaliatory action in Balad a-Sheikh for the murder at the refineries, the conquest of Haifa, the fierce battles in Latrun, the breakthrough in Beit-Guvrin. He recently joined the terrorists of the Harel Brigade, worked in fortifications and mines mines in the Negev. He took part in the conquests in the Jerusalem corridor, reached the Egyptian border in Auja-el-Hafir and was wounded in the leg. After he recovered, he refused to be promoted and was sent to the ground-clearing operation of the Jerusalem railroad, and in Beit Safafa, on 2 May 1949, two weeks before his release from the army and returned to the Technion, Forever in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.