Walfish, Pinchas Yitzhak
Son of Miriam and Avraham Abba Halevy. He was born on May 6, 1910, in Lodz, Poland, where he studied in a cheder, and later at the Torat Chesed Yeshiva in Lodz, before his father’s departure to Eretz Israel. After the war, the family immigrated to Israel and Pinchas studied in Jerusalem at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva, but after a year he stopped his studies in order to work and help his family’s economy. He studied at a shoe factory and later worked in the building materials industry, but volunteered for the fire brigade and spent six years there. In 1929, he joined his father to guard the Montefiore neighborhood, where he lived, and was sent to the village of Hagla in Emek Hefer, and in a short time, and he began to work in the quarry with the rest of the members. He went on guard duty at night and at the same time enlisted in the Nutrim corps, and his head was mostly devoted to the activities of the Hagana organization, where he devotedly filled various positions, mainly in training. On 14th of Elul, September 10, 1938, vehicles for the purpose of guarding and covering the workers of the Electric Company who went out to repair burnt electricity poles on the Beer Tuvia line and on the streets additional guards were added to them. After the repairs were completed, they were attacked on their way back by an armed Arab gang near the village of Masmiya. Two of the workers were wounded, two were killed on the spot and four were missing the next day, and Pinchas was among them. He was brought to eternal rest in the Haganah section of the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery. He left parents, brother and a sister. His memory was immortalized in Beit Am and in a Torah scroll named after him in the Kiryat Yosef neighborhood near Tel Aviv, and in a special booklet containing the words of his parents, brothers, friends, teachers and apprentices.
