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Ziblin, Aharon

Ziblin, Aharon


Son of Esther and Ephraim, was born on February 22, 1932 in Rishon Letzion. He was most attracted to sports: football and swimming, but he excelled in his studies to the point of obtaining a scholarship at the end of the elementary school, which he used to study at the Max Payne vocational school. When he grew up in the winter of 1948 he left his studies and volunteered for the special unit that operated in the Efraim region and participated in special operations against gang members, retaliations, weapons transfers and more. He excelled in his service out of dedication and understanding of the lofty goal, and performed every task with perfection and precision. When the members of the sub-division were brought into regular battalions, he could have been released because of his youth, but he did not want to remain silent as long as the liberated homeland remained silent. He served in the Givati ​​Brigade. His nickname “Aharaleh,” in which he was known as a child, which he brought with him from the Gadna, remained in the battalion, where he was perhaps the youngest soldier, first serving as a rifleman and later as a wireless operator and participating in all battles in the south and in the Negev. After the death of his sister in the murderous bombing of Rishon Letzion by Egyptian planes, and during his second truce with his brigade and battalion, he expressed his regret that he could not continue beating Egypt in the operation “Horev.” But there, too, A reward for the village of Tira, whose infiltrators were robbed and murdered in the Sharon, and Aharon managed to radio the base at Ramat Hakovesh, that the mission was successful, He and another soldier by enemy bullets and fell daylight in Tevet Ts”t (01/03/1949). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.

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