Son of Sarah and Abraham, was born on November 29, 1925 in Tel Aviv, where he spent his childhood. He received his early education at the large urban “Khan” on Bograshov Street and later at the “Tel Nordoi” school and in the son of Shemen youth village. When he was nine, he traveled with his parents to visit abroad and returned full of impressions. Upon his return, he studied at the school for the children of the workers and joined the “Mahanot Haolim” movement, where he was educated to love the land, the crafts and the nature. When they graduated from the school, they went to work in agriculture and were accepted to the school on Givat Hashlosha. At the same time a musical tendency arose in him, and he began to play piano and play the flute and guitar. At the age of 18, he joined the Palmach and went through all the struggles of the underground and the period of the struggle: He participated in the attack on the British police camp in Sarona and in the operations for the arrival of the illegal immigrant ship Wingate and sat in detention in Jerusalem and the Latrun and Rafah camps, Practice Class. One day he came home and said he had been chosen for pilot training. “I was only chosen for 50 hours,” he told his worried mother. After the 50 hours came 100. The War of Independence broke out, and Zvi, who was one of the first pilots of the Palmach, went out with his plane to battle, and there were no real airplanes in Israel, and in the small primitive plane called “Primus” He took off on the Tel Aviv-Gush Etzion line and dropped parachutes for ammunition, medicine, orders, encouragement, and return, and he went on flights without any hesitation and doubt and fulfilled every task he was given: He threw equipment in Hartuv and in the village of Uriya, supplied water to Yehiam, worked at the Nachshon headquarters at the time of the breakthrough to Jerusalem, and used his plane “eyes” for every convoy that broke through to the Bir Was the first to discover the location of the enemy’s artillery bases that shelled Jerusalem: Beit Jubrin, Faluja, Tulkarem, Qalqiliya, Ramallah, Shu’afat, Sasa, Pick, Kuneitra, Beit Eshel – these are chapters in the heroism of the Hebrew pilot The young man in the operation diary of Chevy, saw the fall of Gush Etzion and was able to serve only a little help in his plane, with a few primitive bombs and several Bren cartridges, he and his friends made a desperate effort to help the defenders of the Gush and deflect the armored cars in his hair. . Zvi continued to operate even after he was wounded and his neck was bleeding. When he finished throwing the bombs and the contact with the defenders was cut off, he returned to his base and his plane – 14 hits from enemy bullets. After serving for some time as commander of an airport somewhere in Israel, he was sent to study in Czechoslovakia and returned after a few months of study straight to the battlefield in the Negev. A week after his return, on December 28, 1948, during Operation Horev he made a reconnaissance flight over Auja al-Hafir and landed to help the pilot who was with him in action. He was attacked by four Egyptian Spitfires and was unable to fly high enough to maneuver in battle. A bundle that hit the plane ended his life and the life of the explorer who was with him. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. After his fall, he was granted the rank of airborne officer (lieutenant). The “badge of heroism” granted to him after his death was given to an act of heroism on a flight to son of Shemen. Tzvi left Sde Dov to lead supplies and ammunition to the besieged white oil. At the same time, enemy fire confined the defenders to positions. He landed in the narrow lane without any help and transferred the supplies and ammunition to safety. All this was done when he was exposed to enemy fire, which increased and prevented him from returning to the plane. According to his proposal, the local people loaded sandbags onto a tractor, and they drove them and stood before the plane as a barrier to enemy fire. Tzvi succeeded in activating his sonWho had already been identified with several bullets, jumped into the plane and returned safely to his base. All these superhuman efforts were made to save the plane, knowing how few planes were and how valuable they were in the War of Independence.
