Turbiner, Yaakov

Yaakov, son of Chava and Shlomo Turbiner, was born in 1929 in a town near Lublin, Poland. During the Holocaust he found refuge with his mother in a Christian house. After the liberation he moved to Lublin, joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement and embarked on the Bericha route to Eretz Israel. In 1945, he boarded the ship Shabtai Lozinski and was in an enlisted hachshara in Givat Brenner, where his nucleus was concentrated. Yaakov served in the Golani Brigade and fought in the Horev operation to remove the Egyptian army from Israel. He fell near Rafah on the 3rd of Tevet, (4.1.1949) and was buried on the border. On the 16th of Av 5709 (August 11, 1949) he was laid to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.