Tikotzky, Aharon (Arla)

Son of Attil and Avraham, was born in 1926 in Petah Tikva. After completing elementary school, he was engaged in baking. He was a member of Maccabi Hatzair and the Haganah, and in early 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, he joined the Haganah and was assigned to the Alexandroni Brigade. Aharon participated in activities in Wadi Ara, Zichron Yaakov, the Ephraim Mountains, the conquest of Arab Kfar Saba, Hiriya, Sakia and more. With the entry of the Arab Legion into the fighting, the situation of Jerusalem, which had been cut off by the legion of Latrun, deteriorated. The “son of-Nun A” operation was planned for the breakthrough. The mission was assigned to the 7th Brigade and its battalion would reinforce the brigade for this mission and attack Latrun. Shortly before they left, they encountered better enemy forces and had to retreat. On the 17th of Iyar 5708 (May 26, 1948), a wounded soldier was also injured and fell. His burial place was unknown. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the year 5758, his body, which was buried as an anonymous person in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, was found on Monday 27.5.1998, he was brought to eternal rest in the Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva.