Wolf, Meir (Freddy)

Son of Guta and Moshe, Meir was born on February 7, 1927 in the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in a religious house. Thanks to his young age, he was allowed to leave Germany during the “Youth Aliyah” when the war was already brewing. Meir immigrated to Palestine on January 1, 1941. He spent three years in training in a religious youth village where he specialized in furniture carpentry. Then he joined the group of kibbutzim near Pardes Hanna. Meir was a member of the Haganah and was injured during the British attack on Givat Haim in 1945. At the beginning of the War of Independence, he volunteered for the Alexandroni Brigade and a month later he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. During the Operation “Horev”, a liquidation operation was carried out against the Flug Pocket, where an Egyptian brigade was besieged, and the attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took control of it. In the meantime, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw, and some of the force was captured in the village. On December 28, 1948, Meir was seriously wounded and fell. He was buried in Faluja on December 18, 1949. He was transferred to the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.