Tiron, Joseph

Born in 1912 in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Israel in 1938. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he was drafted into the army and served in the Golani Brigade. The Syrians invaded the Jordan Valley on May 16, 1948, took control of several of the area’s outposts, but were stopped by our forces in Zemach. On May 18 the Syrians launched an attack on a plant with the help of artillery and tanks. Our forces did not withstand the intensity of the Syrian attack. At first, the town of Tzemach fell, and finally the police station, and the defenders retreated under Syrian fire towards Degania. In this battle he fell on the 9th of Iyar 5708 (18.5.1948) and was brought to rest in the cemetery on the Sea of ​​Galilee.