Tzvi Shteinman

Son of-Batya and Yerachmiel, Tzvi was born on 6 June 1927 in Tel Aviv when he graduated from the Tachkemoni School at the age of 14, and after that he continued to study for two years in a commercial school. When he was 15 years old, joined the Irgun underground and participated in the organization’s division, and was arrested by the police when he distributed leaflets and was sentenced to good behavior. About two months after the trial he was caught with another 19 young men in a training camp in Shuni, where a course for Etzel commanders was held, and sentenced to seven years in prison.For nearly three years he was imprisoned in the Acre Fort and the Jerusalem prison until he was transferred to Atlit and on 18.4.1948 at the beginning The War of Independence was liberated after the War of Independence, when he completed his commanding course and joined a battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade with the rank of commander of a class, educated many soldiers, especially the new immigrants, and was respected. To the south, as part of the forces that held the line that was encircled by an Egyptian brigade in the “Faluja pocket” and four days later was seriously wounded near Iraq al-Manshiyya. A few hours earlier, he told his parents: “I will still recover and continue to be a soldier until we have passed through the hospital. The Jordan River. “He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.