Tarbes, Zechariah (Bambino)

Son of Miriam (Irma) and Mordechai, was born on July 18, 1927 in Milan, Italy to a well-to-do Zionist family. Zacharia immigrated to Israel with his family in 1939 and attended an elementary school in Rehovot. When he was 15, he joined the Mahanot Ha’olim movement and was one of the movement’s guides in the cities. He graduated from the Max Payne Professional School and became a mechanic. Immediately after completing his studies, he joined the Palmach, trained in Maoz Haim, and moved with his friends to the Arava, where he dreamed of a working life in a kibbutz that he liked, and he looked forward to the day when he could return to work he loved with all his Lev. To remain in his active position in the Palmach. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he served in the Palmach’s First Battalion in the “Yiftach” Brigade and participated as a commander of a sabotage company in the battles of the Galilee and the Negev: Malkia, Nebi Yusha, Lod and Falluja. Zachariah fell in battle in the area of ​​Faluja on 28 July 1948. He was younger than his brother Yoram, who also fell in the War of Independence four months earlier, and Zechariah was brought to rest in Beit- The military cemetery in Rehovot.