Tammler, Eliyahu (Eddie)
Son of Sabina and Avraham (a lawyer, a Zionist activist) was born in 1920 in the city of Zastava, near Czernowitz, Bukovina (then Romania). At the age of 13 he was orphaned from his father and at a young age he already tasted the taste of the war of survival. Eliahu attended the Gymnasium in Czernowitz and joined the “Hashmonaim” student union. From the dawn of his youth, Zionism was the content of his life, and in 1939 he immigrated to Israel on the “Fritta” and immediately entered the labor service of a Betar recruitment company and served in the Irgun Zvai Leumi. In 1942, he was arrested in Haifa by the British Mandate authorities, he was interned in the detention camps in Mizra and Latrun and was released in the middle of 1943 and was required to report daily to the police. He renewed his wartime activities against the British and excelled in courage, coolness and considerations In late 1945, he was appointed commander of the largest combat unit, was attached to the planning of operations and participated in the planning, command and execution of dozens of operations, and was an educator – His underground name was “Gondar Yehoshua.” In April 1946 he was arrested near Bat Yam when he rushed with his men to help a unit that had returned from carrying out an act of sabotage and was attacked by the British. Had Elijah and his men abandoned the weapons in their hands, the British would have had no basis in prohibiting them and bringing them to justice, but the sense of military honor could not be abandoned. At the same time, their friends Simhon and Eshbal were sentenced to death and five British officers were abducted and held by the Irgun as hostages, and Eliyahu was also sentenced to death under emergency laws for carrying arms. In the beginning of 1948, he escaped with his friends from the Jerusalem prison in a tunnel that they had dug and immediately returned to his post, planning and carrying out other activities, including the daring attacks on the British army in the Karkur camp and the train near Pardes Hannah, in the conquest of the Manshiyya neighborhood in the north Of the city of Jaffa by the Irgun played a central role and upon the completion of the operation, on April 30, 1948, was crushed by a British shell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.
