Baruch, son of Rachel and Yitzhak, was born in Tel Aviv on November 5, 1943. From his childhood, he was a pioneer in the field of agriculture, and at the elementary school in Tel Baruch he was greatly influenced by his teachers. “Baruch was handsome, talented, deep in thought, a friend of all, and yet modest, courteous and polite. His teachers admired him and his friends took over his leadership. Baruch was a boy whom every teacher wanted to find in his class. He had a deep, organic connection to man and his land. He always thought of the best way he could serve this country and contribute to building a society of values. It was not personal achievements that guided his actions, but the desire to contribute to society, the desire to create and innovate in it. He always talked about searching for a way, did not accept the existing situation, and resented what he did not like. He was a nonconformist and individualist in his ways of thinking and behavior. On one of our walks among the surrounding fields, searching for and identifying plants, he said to me: “I feel connected to this land and nothing can keep me away from it. Baruch was drafted into the IDF in late September 1961 and assigned to the Nahal Brigade. When he reached the stage of flying in a light plane, he failed and was forced to leave the course, and was offered the opportunity to continue the Navat course, but preferred to return to the Nahal outpost in Ein Yahav. After completing a paratrooper training course in the Paratroop Brigade and a parachute course, he completed his regular service. After liberation he remained in Ein Yahav for naturalization. He was sent as a tour guide to Be’erotayim and there he met Renee the soldier, his future wife. His wedding was the first to be held in Ein Yahav in 1964. His burial was the first known to Ein-Yahav in 1974. “I met Baruch for twelve years, together in basic training, and we continued to serve in the reserves. When we were wounded, it was the one who dressed me and made me feel like a tassel, and later we carried stretchers together and found the way to Ammunition Hill, where he did the heroic act, when he led the wounded in a Jordanian vehicle under fire, to We were also in a stronghold in the Suez Canal during the War of Attrition, and Baruch, then a sniper, went out every day to ” Work “- which involved great patience and risk, and I knew that in every situation one could rely on his ability and thinking. Indeed, Baruch was among the fighters on Ammunition Hill and Augusta Victoria and among the few who survived this bitter struggle. After the war he was invited many times to Motta Gur, for the details mentioned in the books “Aryeh’s Gate” and “The Temple Mount is in our hands,” and his words usually appear in these books. He was also interviewed by journalists and his statements were published in the press. He said then, “Today, when I think what pushed the people forward, it’s hard for me to give a satisfactory answer … People are advancing at the command, but even beyond the simple order, when you lie wounded across the canal, But you get up, get your body out of the ditch, crawl to the friend and give him help. ” Eventually, Baruch and Rana had two sons and a daughter, Tomer, Alon and Nirit. “Baruch was a man who constantly deliberated and was torn between his many interests: he had a strong desire to study and his books, which remained in Ein Yahav, attest to their owners – books on economics, politics, Arabic, a corner devoted to books about the war and many music books He loved to flute the flute and his love for the music he gave his children, tooIndependence of thought, respect for opposing views and nonconformism, which was expressed sharply in his life and his relations with Ein Yahav. Baruch is busy working in the field, wearing his heavy work shoes, wearing his short blue pants, Edom Mountains in the east and the Arava Valley cutting the cultivated land. “Baruch was endowed with a very deep patriotic feeling that expressed him in conversations, debates and letters he sent to his wife In one of the letters he wrote, “Reneele, I do not know if you noticed, if you do not look now, I mentioned the full Hebrew date of the letter – 26 Shvat 5724 – Memorial Day for the fallen fighters of the Lehi underground. “On the anniversary of Yair’s murder, about 24 years since the declaration of the revolt against British rule, you know my sympathy for the Lehi separatists. Though I do not always identify with my own thoughts, I am full of admiration for the heroism of those who were lonely. Not because of their war against foreign rule, but for their resistance despite the resistance of the Yishuv to them, their uncompromising stand in the struggle … “During the Yom Kippur War, Baruch Kalawai served as a company commander on the southern front. On the 22nd of Tishrei 5740 (October 22, 1973), his company combed the vicinity of the fresh water channel, on the way to Ismaily. Suddenly, an Egyptian soldier appeared with a weapon in the mango trees. Baruch did not want to shoot him and called him in Arabic to raise his hands. The Egyptian withdrew and opened fire and Baruch was injured and fell. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery of Ein Yahav. He left behind a wife, two sons and a daughter, a father, a mother, two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolences to the family, his commander wrote: “From my acquaintance with Baruch, from our conversations and conversations with his comrades in arms, a wonderful figure of a righteous and righteous man emerges and works hard to keep the Negev desolate, “He said. In his memory, Moshav Ein Yahav published a booklet containing friends’ comments about his character and fragments of his letters; In addition, a list was published in the newspaper Ma’ariv about the three men from Ammunition Hill – the three who were saved from the difficult battle in the Six-Day War and who fell in the Yom Kippur War.
