Yagantinsky, Amiram

Son of Tova and Moshe, a pioneer of the Third Aliya, was born on August 9, 1928, in Haifa. Where he studied for a year in a nursery school in Hadar Hacarmel, and when his parents settled in Kfar Hess he continued there for two years in kindergarten and then completed elementary school and two additional classes at the Tel Mond school. He studied at Mikvah Israel for two years and in the fall of 1947 returned home and worked in his parents’ farm. Amiram enlisted in the Palmach, and throughout the winter he worked in the army during the day and was a guard at the Gadna. He is blessed with his good qualities: good Lev and good eye, honest and faithful in speech and action, moderate and polite and disciplined, intelligent and firm in his opinions, courageous and active in humility and responsible for everything he has taken upon himself. He wanted very much to enlist in an active service, and was forced to stay at home and bear the burden of the farm, but consoled himself that on May 15, 1948, the day of the declaration of the State, In the last days before the induction, he did all the urgent work in the agriculture, so that when he enlisted he could leave the house in good conscience. In April 1948 he went out with his friends to harvest the hay and managed to overcome the Arabs who had ambushed them and returned safely. Even when they were helping the kibbutz of the Ma’apil near Kakun, they escaped from a dangerous situation and returned safely. Two days before his enlistment, he and all the PFLP forces left the area to harass the village of Tira, in order to facilitate the activities of our forces in the vicinity of Kfar Sava and Ramat Hakovesh.The commanders of the operation expanded the harassment and went on to a real attack, and some of the advanced forces were caught in a trap. He was surrounded by a bullet in a good, comfortable place, but his friends were surrounded by a bullet and fell on Wednesday, May 13, 1948. Amiram’s burial place is unknown. A monument was erected in his memory in the military section of Tel Mond and in the Garden of the Missing on Mount Herzl. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.