Triax, Benjamin

Son of Tzippora and Yitzhak, was born on April 13, 1924 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and when his parents immigrated to Israel he grew up in Tel Aviv and Bnei Brak, completing elementary school and continuing to study agriculture at the school In the agricultural school his right hand was caught in an electric grinder, and the upper joints of two fingers were amputated, and before he reached the mitzva he swore to the Haganah, and in the Second World War he volunteered for the British army. She refused to allow him to enlist and he began a hunger strike until she gave in. In the army they did not want to get him first because of Momo, and he replied: “Give me a weapon and show you that I He served in the Bafs, was a driver in Egypt, and finally in the Jewish Brigade, and served for a time in the brigade headquarters as Brigadier Benjamin’s personal driver, and was sentenced to one month in prison for an act of vengeance against the Germans. In December 1947, immediately after the UN General Assembly decided to partition the country, he enlisted in a full-time conscription and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. He knew how to organize, and was appointed a quartermaster and then a transport officer. On the 14th of Iyar 5708 (23.5.1948), the day of the conquest of Tantura, he returned with a friend to the task of removing a battalion armored vehicle, which was stuck on the way. Neither of them returned. Arab snipers ambushed them and they fell. Benjamin was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. After he fell, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant.