Sobol, Pinchas

Pinchas, son of Gitel and Yisrael Sobol, was born in 1928 in Poland to a well-to-do family. With the outbreak of World War II, the family fled to Russia. For three years they lived in Smolensk, and when the Nazi invader arrived, they began wandering. On the way his parents were killed and and Pinchas was left alone. He arrived in Iran and immigrated to Israel with the “Tehran Children” on 27 February 1943. He came to Kibbutz Yagur and studied there at the regional school. The sights of horror he had seen made him solitary and withdrawn. He entered the district school older than his classmates, but did not accept the backwardness of his knowledge, and spent nights studying to fill in the gaps. After graduating from the regional school, he joined the Nutras and served there for about a year. On 7 Iyar, May 16, 1948, Pinchas fell during a naval raid in Lebanon. His burial place is unknown. A monument was erected on Har Herzl in his memory.