Yigal, Yechiel ( Hilik)

Son of Idel and Asher, was born on 24.6.1924 in a town in Lvov, Poland, and was the youngest of the six children of the family. He began his education in the “cheder” and from there moved to the elementary school. He was a member of the Zionist youth movement “Dror” and aspired to immigrate to Israel, but in the meantime the Second World War broke out. Most of the family members were murdered by the Nazis and he himself fled to Russia in 1941. Where he joined the Polish army that had been established in Russia after the Stalin-Sikorski agreement, and with him he arrived in Palestine in 1943. In Israel he deserted from the Polish army and joined Kibbutz Yagur. He spent some time in the kibbutz and joined the British army. When he was in Silesia in 1946, he met the remains of his few surviving family. After the liberation he returned to Kibbutz Yagur and hit him with roots, but when the War of Independence broke out he enlisted and served in the Carmeli Brigade. He took a water course and in the Battle of Ramat Yochanan fell on the 15th of Nissan 5708 (April 15, 1948), in his innocence of his comrades. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Yagur. His memory was placed in a memory booklet of the kibbutz, published one year after his death, in memory of his friend Pinhas Sobol.