Yichiya, Yigal

Son of Rina and Yefet was born on May 14, 1928, in the Sha’arayim neighborhood near Rehovot. When he was four, his parents moved to the village of Marmorek. Until the age of 12, he studied at the Talmud Torah, later studied at Yeshivat Porat Yosef, and in the evening he gained knowledge with a private teacher. At the age of 14 he began to work to help his family. He joined the “HaNoar HaOved” branch and over time became one of the most talented instructors. After training days in the camps and farms, he was hired at the experimental station in Rehovot where he stood out as a gifted, work-loving, thirsty and knowledgeable young man. He quickly acquired experience in various ministry jobs and was very successful in examining his acceptance as a permanent employee of the Jewish Agency. Yigal was one of the first recruits to the Gadna and was transferred to the Gadna Commandment Course in the course of the course, where the British conducted a search for weapons of mass destruction and Yigal was among the 15 suspects who were imprisoned for 48 hours in a single pen and tortured there. For youth training in the Gadna. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was drafted into the Hagai Brigade and later transferred to the Givati ​​Brigade, where he fought in the battles against the Egyptian army for many years. A few days after Yigal was appointed commander of a squad, his unit took control of several outposts that controlled the Ramat Hakovesh. The Iraqis attacked with great force, but were repulsed. In this battle, on January 3, 1949, he was hit by a bullet that pierced his Lev and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.