Vanger, Yitzhak-Aizik

Son of Zipora (Feiga) and Yerachmiel was born on January 29, 1929 in northern Romania. 1945 he was brought to Israel with the orphans of Transnistria. As part of the “Youth Aliyah” project, he was placed in the home of a farmer in the village of Yehezkel, where he was educated in agricultural work and trained in the Hagana in the immigrant youth movement that found his place in the moshav. At the beginning of the War of Independence he volunteered with his comrades for the army. He was assigned to a combat battalion in the Golani Brigade and participated in all his operations and battles. In Operation Horev, the expulsion of the Egyptian army from Israel, the Golani Brigade was tasked with creating a deception in the western wing of the front, before the main effort in the eastern wing began. On the night of December 22-23, 1948, the brigade captured the 86th post north of Khan Younis, threatening the road and the railway, and gave the impression that the intention was to cut off the Egyptian forces in the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians reacted with a fierce counter-attack with the help of artillery and armor, and under enemy pressure the Golani fighters were forced to retreat. Uri was killed on 20 December 1948. He was buried in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak on August 11, 1949, and was buried at the border.