Tiktin, Ephraim

Son of Bilhah and Asher. He was born in 1913 in Wielkawisk, Lithuania, and moved to Detroit in the United States. He was among the first members of his Hashomer Hatzair movement to move to Palestine from the United States (1933). On 6 Nisan, April 7, 1938, he went out with a friend to accompany a group of plantation experts who came to visit the kibbutz. Returning from Yokne’am to Ein HaShofet near the village of Reihaniya, he and his friend Eliezer Krongold were ambushed by Arab gang members and killed. He was buried in a mass grave in Ein Ha-Shofet. Leaving a wife, parents and sister. His son, born after his death, bears his name. Kibbutz Ein Hashofet published a pamphlet in memory of the two victims, in which Efraim was described as a hero from “the tribe of the silent, the most humble and the most glorious”. A list in his memory was also published in the morning newspaper.