Tirs, Saul (Paul)

Son of Rosa and Yosef, was born on July 4, 1927 in the city of Opava, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to Israel on December 20, 1939. Shaul attended elementary school and the Mikve Israel agricultural school. When he was 16 and joined the Palmach, although they tried to prevent him because of his youth. In the days of the British attack on Birya, Shaul worked in the ranks of the religious company and was one of the first defenders to be arrested. When he was released from prison, where he was imprisoned for about a year, he joined the Be’erot Yitzhak farm and served as a field guard. He was silent, a man of action and fearless. With the outbreak of the War of Independence after the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the partition of the land, he kept the water line in the Negev, and when Shaul was sent to the Negev Brigade, Shaul appeared at night and brought friends greetings from their wives and children who had been evacuated to Tel Aviv. Shaul was wounded during the raid on the Egyptian unit in Bir Abu Jaber, was taken to the hospital in Ruhama, where he died on 17 July 1948. He was buried in the wells of Isaac. On the 16th of Kislev 5711 (November 16, 1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa.