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Tenzer, Zvi

Tenzer, Zvi


Son of Deborah and Ze’ev, was born in 1929 in the city of Czestochowa, Poland. During the wartime war he arrived with his parents to Siberia, and in 1943, at the age of 14, managed to reach Eretz Israel with his brother in the framework of the Youth Aliyah from Tehran. In Israel he studied at Mikvah Israel and after completing his studies there he began working as a manager in Petah Tikva. Zvi enlisted immediately after the fighting and moved with his unit from the Alexandroni Brigade to the battles of the Triangle border, Kakun, Arab Kfar Saba and more. He participated in Operation Danny and in an Arab counter-attack on Rosh Ha’ayin, killed by shrapnel onthe 7th of Tamuz, 7 July 1948. His last words were as Trumpeldor said: “It is good to die for our country.” He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery Military operation in Netanya.

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