Weintraub, Efraim (Wei)
Was born on January 8, 1930, in the city of Tarnogrod, Poland At the beginning of the Second World War, he was swept into the Soviet-occupied area and sent with his parents to slave labor in the forests of northern Siberia because of their refusal to accept Soviet citizenship His parents died and after the “pardon” in 1941, and following the German attack on the Soviet Union and the Stalin-Sikorsky agreement, he traveled to the south, to Turkestan, and was admitted to an orphanage. On February 12, 1943, he immigrated to Israel with the Teheran Children, was sent to the Beit Alpha educational institution and before the 12th grade joined the IDF and served in one of the Golani Brigade battalions. 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 position north of Khan Yunis, 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. On this day he fell on the 22nd of December, 1948, and was buried on the borders, and on the 6 th of Elul 5709 (August 31, 1949) he was put to rest in the Beit Alpha cemetery.
