Yemini, Aryeh-Israel

Son of Sheitl and Chaim-Shlomo, was born on February 19, 1928 in Petach Tikvah, one of the founders of the settlement. He graduated from Netzach Yisrael and continued to study at the Ahad Ha’am Gymnasium. As a young boy, he joined Betar and later joined the Irgun and fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him. At the age of 15, he was caught for the first time and brought to the police for posting leaflets. During the interrogation he stood firm in his denial and was finally released. During the large search in Petach Tikva he was arrested and after three days in prison he was sent home and forced to be in his home from sunset to sunrise and to report daily to the police. During the period of the “resistance movement” in which the three underground movements worked together after the bombing of the King David Hotel, he was detained for about five months in the Latrun camp and was again released under house arrest conditions. During that period he served the underground in his capacity and during his free time, and after graduating he worked to help his family. He had a sense of humor and was fond of his acquaintances and comrades in the underground. When the British abandoned the area before they completely evacuated the country, he devoted himself entirely to the war for the liberation and protection of the homeland. He passed a commanders’ course and graduated with honors, and later worked as a teacher and liked his students. His underground name was: Head of the Avindav Group. When Etzel members left for an attack on the Manshiyeh neighborhood in northern Jaffa, he was placed in charge of one of the bases, and joined the fighting units as a “Bren” machine gunner. On the fourth day of the fighting, on April 28, 1948, when his armored vehicle was attacked by an enemy, he returned to his home in the occupied territories, A British tank approached him and hit him with an anti-tank cannon, the first shell wounded him in the leg, and the second took his life and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva.