Shtissel, Nehemiah
Son of Tova and Moshe Yehuda was born on August 9, 1929 in the city of Nasez, Transylvania to a family of 13 people, and his father’s father, who was a scribe, received a love of Torah and awe. During the Holocaust in Europe, most of the family perished in the Auschwitz death camp and only two brothers and a sister who survived survived. Nehemiah immigrated to Israel on a ship called “Max Nordoi” in May 1945. He lived in Bnei Brak and worked in a plastic factory. Nehemiah joined the “Hapoel Hamizrahi” youth group, which worked to study the Hebrew language and joined the Haganah. With the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to partition the country and the outbreak of the War of Independence, the religious HISH department, which was a member of it, was called for full mobilization in the Alexandroni Brigade and acted in the defense of Ramat Yitzhak against the gangs of Salameh and Jamusin. From there the Department moved to Jerusalem and participated in the city’s defense, in the wet battles, Neve Ya’akov, Tzuba, and Motza. Nehemiah, who fought with devotion and stood the test, felt lonely and lonely and waited impatiently for his sister to immigrate to Israel. He did not go on leave because “I just do not have a home,” he told his friends. From the Jerusalem area, the company moved to the “Triangle” border, participated in the conquest of the Tel Litvinsky camp (Tel Hashomer) and in the Ramle-Lod battles. In all these battles he acted as a medic and did his job properly. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak
