Tavori (Taburiski), Yitzhak

Son of Yehudit and Yaakov. He was born on February 10, 1913 in Kremenchug, Russia, where he was admitted to the Reali School in Haifa and was renowned for his talents and interest in the questions of the individual and the society. He joined the group of friends who founded Kibbutz Afikim in the Jordan Valley in 1932. At the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936-1939, Yitzhak joined the ranks of the defenders and trained professionally. During the Second World War, when the Allied forces invaded Syria, which was under the control of Vichy the Nazi sympathizer, Yitzhak joined the Palmach. One of the Palmach units (“Company A”) joined the fighting forces. Despite all his activity, he had doubts that he was not doing all that was required of a Hebrew youth at the time. His heart was torn apart, for weeks and months he was walking in a state of cruel self-agony until he could not bear it anymore. On the 27th of Adar (March 22, 1944), Yitzhak died and was laid to rest in the kibbutz cemetery. He left a wife, a boy and a girl. Yitzhak is commemorated in “The Palmach Book”.