Yom-Tov, Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Sarah and Eliyahu Yom-Tov, was born on the 4th of Nissan, April 4, 1919, in Lodz, Poland, and immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel in 1925. At the age of 14 he was hired by the Anglo-Palestine Bank and became one of its officials until his last day. As a member of the Hagana from an early age he participated in the defense of the Yishuv during the bloody riots of 1936-1939. At the beginning of the Second World War he joined the anti-aircraft units of the British Army that operated in Palestine and Cyprus. Yitzhak served in the army for five years and upon his release, he returned to the Haganah as a platoon commander. Yitzhak enlisted in the War of Independence on May 3, 1948. On the night of May 14, 1948, anti-aircraft guns were sent to Tel Aviv (“Sde Dov”). Yitzhak slept during the night in a jeep and on the sixth of Iyar 5708 (May 15, 1948), when the enemy planes appeared, one of the planes dived and fell on the defenders. He left behind a wife and a daughter. Yitzhak was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.