Zohar-Schuster, Yitzhak

Zohar-Schuster, Yitzhak


Son of Hassia and Chaim. Born in the town of Suffol in Lithuania on 25.5.1928, he immigrated to Israel with his grandparents in 1935. He studied at an urban school in Tel Aviv and excelled in extraordinary talents, He also worked in the “HaPoel Hatza’ir” printing press, and spent the evenings preparing for the Gordonia movement, which he was a member of. Before leaving for training, he had to deal with the need to repay his grandfather and grandmother for everything they had done for him and his ambition for pioneering fulfillment, and he was Simcha when he convinced them of the justice of his path. He was initially a member of the “Gordonia” training commune in Neve Yam and later a member of Kibbutz Degania Bet. Was very devoted to his group and friends. When the war broke out after the UN decision to partition the country into two states, he volunteered to guard the water pipe in the Negev, “It was our fate to guard the most dangerous part,” he wrote in one of his letters. They are the Bedouins here. “On December 13, 1947, a group of five people went on a tour to secure the western water line. In a difficult battle between them and the large number of Arabs in the area, the group of defenders fell near its rebirth. On the 28th of Sivan 5713 (28.5.1953) he was put to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.

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