Zayat (Zeitz), Eitan (Friedrich, Fritz)

The youngest son of Ethel (Yehudit) and David, was born on July 22, 1925, in the port city of Galatz, Romania, the fifth son of the family, named Fritz (Friedrich) after his grandmother Frieda. She emigrated from Russia and came to Romania to immigrate to Eretz Israel and remained stranded on the way to settle in Galatz, where he was educated in Hebrew and Zionism, and his older brothers, members of the Hashomer Hatzair and Gordonia youth movements, took the toddler to their clubs, The book was interested not only in studies but also in sports and especially in football, and when he was ten years old, he initiated the establishment of a Zionist sports club that was devoted to He joined Hashomer Hatzair and remained loyal to the movement all his life, and his older brother, who immigrated to Israel in 1935, returned to Romania in 1940 as emissary of the Hehalutz movement and was unable to bring the entire family together. “Aliyat Hanoar” The youth spent a short time in Avuka, Nir Haim and Mishmar Haemek until he joined the Romanian youth company in Beit Zera, where he spent two years, specializing in floriculture and mechanics. His home was Kibbutz Reshefim in Kiryat Motzkin (before the immigration to Israel), but for the most part he was given protection and training duties by the kibbutz, which required his stay outside the house. In 1947, he completed his training course and was appointed commander of the area, and in 1947 he established his family’s nest and went abroad to work in the Haifa port, where he completed extensive training in the late summer of that year. On March 27, 1948, at noon, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left for Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications, and reinforcements to Yiham, near Kabri, the caravan encountered an ambush set up by the Arabs. The first managed to break through and reach Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed.The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, In one version, he went down to check the nature of the stone barrier erected by the Arabs, and then he was killed, brought to eternal rest in the Yehiam cemetery, and left behind a wife and son, and his wife, Pnina, diedf after his death. He was granted the rank of First Lieutenant (lieutenant).