Weber, Eliyahu

Son of Bluma and David, was born in 1928 in the city of Anjela, Bukovina, Romania. Eliahu excelled in his studies at school and from his childhood aspired to immigrate to Eretz Israel in the wake of his brothers and sisters and to be a land worker like them. When he was 13, he was deported with his parents and all the other Jews to Transnistria, and he ran away from the camp to pick up and bring various food items to his parents and relatives. When his parents perished in the camp, he escaped and found refuge in the home of a Ukrainian peasant family as a fictitious family, where he received the “training” as a shepherd and worker in the field and in the courtyard, and the belief in his future in the Land of Israel gave him the strength to endure his ordeal. In 1944, he immigrated to Israel as part of Youth Aliyah (the first convoy of orphans from Transnistria with the help of the International Red Cross). He studied at Mikvah Israel for two years in the religious immigrant youth movement and specialized in fruit trees. Eliahu joined the Haganah with great enthusiasm and dedication, and became a rank-and-file officer, and he was a teacher and counselor for a group of immigrant youth in Sde Ya’akov, “Eliahu was enthusiastic about the large pioneering enterprise of settling the Negev, as a place to absorb immigrants, because” there can not be a Jewish state without the Negev. “When he finished his job at Kvutzat Tekuma he came to Tel Aviv and worked for a while – what in the “Ha’argaz” factory and later in the “sailors” The Green neighborhood of Holon, and carried out important activities in one of the first reinforcements of the infantry sent from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and attached to the “Moriah” battalion. In Jerusalem, he participated in the defense of the neighborhoods of Makor Haim and Talpiot and in the Katamon Battalions. He fulfilled every command with skill and dedication, helped his commander, continued to train and guide in the most dangerous places while he was in high spirits from the feeling of redemption and rebirth in this war. Before them. Recently, he and his company were sent to Operation Maccabi for the breakthrough and siege of Jerusalem near Sha’ar Hagai. He fought with courage and bravery in defense and attacks, and when a hand grenade was thrown close to an enemy position he was hit by a bullet in the head and fell on Wednesday, May 13, 1948. He was brought to eternal rest in the Sanhedria cemetery in Jerusalem.