Tzur (Shitzer), Amihud

Son of Eliyahu and Miriam. He was born on February 9, 1930 in Kfar Yehoshua. His parents, educators and friends remember him from childhood to adolescence as the embodiment of abundance of life and vigor and cheerfulness, good humor and physical and mental integrity of the “first generation of redemption.” With the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, He joined the Palmach before he reached the age of 18. He completed a training course in Ein Hashofet, a training course for instructors in Ma’anit and was attached to the Harel battalion. Participated in the breakthrough to Jerusalem, conquering the Castel, Kolonia and Beit Sourik. He took a course in Abu Ghosh and in April 1948 was wounded in the battle for Nebi Samuel. He was healed in a hospital in Jerusalem and recovered in Ma’ale Hachamisha. In his letters from that time there is a complaint about the oppressive idleness and complacency in memory of combat activity. “I do not want to write just an exaggeration, but sometimes it passes with joy in my Lev that here I am, a moshav worker in the valley. I was privileged to be in the battalion that breaks through the road to Jerusalem.” After his recovery, he was added to the Negev Brigade and participated in the occupation of Auja-el-Hafir, in an assault on Rafah, etc. Even during the fighting, he devoted himself to guarding the outposts and on Thursday, March 31, 1949, he fell on a landmine near the police station in Beit Guvrin, and after his death the family received the name Amitzur “In the book” Our Children, “which Kfar Yehoshua published, Amihud is also included in several pages in which the words of his father, his teachers and his friends and even his letters are brought.