Tuchler, Immanuel-Yitzhak (Ami)

Ami, son of Noni and Dr. Zvi (Herman) Tuchler, was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1929 and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1933. He studied electrical engineering and specialized in radio technology, and from his youth he served in Gadna and Hahayash and enthusiastically performed every task assigned to him. In the beginning of 1947, he enlisted in the Palmach training program, The “HaNoar HaOved” in the Sea Guard and in December he went down with his battalion to protect the Negev. Ami participated in escorting convoys to besieged Yad Mordechai, guarding the water pipe, fighting with gangs and clearing villages, securing transportation as a tracker, helping and covering up the evacuation of Yad Mordechai, mining enemy roads, blowing up bridges and the railway line between Gaza and Ashdod.
When he came home for a short vacation, he spent most of his time experimenting with new weapons, which he said he had invented to be used against the Egyptian enemy. On July 8, 1948, when the Egyptians attacked before the first truce, he was one of the defenders of the Julikat outposts, and he and Zvi Guber from Kfar Varburg dug mortar shells. They were thought to be missing until their graves were found a year later, and on the 4th of Tammuz 5709 (July 1, 1949), Ami was brought to eternal rest with military honor in the military cemetery in Haifa.