Wirtheim, Amon

Son of-Leah, and Ephraim, was born on 20.11.1930 in Haifa, where he completed the elementary school in Kfar Haim and continued for one year at the Haifa Maritime School in Haifa, He was very cheerful, with great humor, centered around his friends, and during the struggle, when he began to participate in the underground activities of the Haganah, which remained silent, became serious, self-centered and silent. He began to work as an apprentice in the Vulcan Foundry and in 1945 he acquired a profession as a castor, immediately after the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the partition in November 1947, when he was 17 years old, he joined the service and was the youngest battalion of the “Carmeli”. He participated in the battles of Tamara, Shfaram, the bombing of the Tarbikhah and Rosh Hanikra bridges, in the first Yehiam battle, in patrols and escorting convoys to the western Galilee. On the afternoon of March 27, 1948, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications, and reinforcements to Yihiam. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle and Amon between them. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Nahariya. He was 17 years old when he fell.