Son of Mordechai and Yehudit. One of the founders and settlers of Nahalal; His father was a descendant of a fifth generation of well-to-do landowners who had settled in one of the Jewish settlements of Sde-Menucha in southern Russia. Most of the family members joined the pioneering movement, immigrated to Israel and were in the process of being fulfilled. His maternal grandfather – Rabbi Moshe Yevzori, a learned Lithuanian, who had wandered to southern Russia: his home was a home for the educated Hebrews and youth in the moshavot who dreamed and aspired to immigrate to Israel and to enjoy their land. Most members of this family also immigrated to Israel and became rooted in the homeland. Assaf was born on 6 October 1922 in Nahalal. He was nine years old when the family moved to Kibbutz Tel Yosef. Assaf attended the Ein Harod-Tel-Yosef joint school, but he left school after the tenth grade, since the youth of settlement in those days did not go on to a matriculation certificate (only in 1954, during the school vacation, Maturity). In his youth, he stood out among children as one of the chief speakers; Active and entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial and organizational characteristics, and the ability to navigate all areas of work, especially in agriculture and agricultural machinery. In the years 1936-1939 he was only 16 years old and then organized the boys’ revolt against the yeshiva on the bench, claiming that “in times of murder and blood, when Arab gangs raged in attacks on Jewish settlements, To engage in Torah study and to be among those who sit on the bench and the parents will stand at the gate and protect us, but we must leave the agriculture and advance the enemy. “He was convinced that in such a conscientious question, he did not accept the opinion of the parents and teachers at the meeting. The youth and the strengthening of their strength, and indeed participated in the invasion of Syria and sabotage behind the French-Vichy enemy lines, the allies of the Nazis. The first outpost commander of the Palmach settlement in the bow. In 1945 he became the commander of the Gadna in the Haifa area, organized the activities of the struggle against the British for their war against immigration and immigration, and even took part in them. He was arrested with the rest of the members on June 29, 1946, After the outbreak of the War of Independence he was appointed commander of a company and afterwards commander of a battalion. His first rank in the IDF was a major. During the War of Independence he participated in the battles of Tirat Zvi, Mishmar HaEmek, the liberation of the Western Galilee, the cleansing of the Galilee from the Kaukji tunnels, the conquest of Safed and Malkia, the Beit She’an valley and the eastern valley. . At the end of the War of Independence, he was appointed lieutenant colonel in 1950, and until 1954 he held various positions as brigade commander in the center and north of the country and even as acting commander of the Northern Command. In 1954, after receiving a matriculation certificate, he received leave from the army for further studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After a while he was transferred to the General Staff and served as deputy head of the Operations Branch, where he went on to study for senior officers in England, where he excelled in his studies, but the studies were interrupted in the middle of his call to the Southern Command in August 1956. Since the War of Independence, He also knew how to cultivate in his subordinates the confidence and faith in the justice of our struggle, and despite his rise in the army, he did not show any signs of condescension and separateness in remaining loyal to the source of his quarry, He was among the architects and planners of the Sinai system, and on November 2, 1956, he received the surrender of An Egyptian general who is older than him (the administrative governor of the Gaza Strip) and put under his mouthThe IDF took over the entire Gaza Strip and saw some victories in the IDF, but on the eighth day of the Sinai Campaign on the 6th of Kislev 5711 (November 6, 1956) he was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Hermon, Herzl published a pamphlet in his memory that contains things about him and his government, and the daily and weekly newspapers of those days wrote extensively about Assaf and his character, and Zalman Shazar wrote a poem about him in the name of ” On his open grave, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Mr. David son of-Gurion, said, among other things: “A loved one.” “Asaf Simhoni, the victorious champion of the IDF, you have become immortal in your position at the head of Israel’s systems in the Sinai Desert, and we part with you in deep sorrow, admiration and pride.” The order of the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Dayan, states, among other things: “On the fall of Assaf, a great commander, a commander who, in his thirty-four years of life, did not miss a battle of his people, a soldier who was in spirit, body and blood Commander of the field, fierce and intelligent in the battle. “On the fifth anniversary of his death, a military library was opened in his name at Tel Aviv University, which was intended to serve as the military chair of its Faculty of Humanities. Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, Netanya, Ramat Gan, Kfar Ata, etc.) were named after Rehovot, and the parents who read their children named Assaf remembered him. On December 10, 1968, one of Asaf’s three sons, Sergeant Avner, was killed when he was carrying out his duties, .
