Siman-Tov Ganeh

Siman-Tov Ganeh (Hebrew: סימן-טוב גנה‎; 1924–1968) was an Israeli soldier who was rewarded with the Hero of Israel.[1][2]

Siman-Tov Ganeh
Native name
סימן-טוב גנה
Born1924
Old City, Jerusalem, Palestine
DiedMarch 6th, 1968 (Aged 44)
Buried
Jerusalem, Israel
AllegianceLehi IDF
Battles/wars 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Awards Hero of Israel

Biography

Siman-Tov Ganeh was born in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Georgian-Jewish family, son of a member of the Jewish Battalions and a volunteer in the British army's Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. When the 1936–1939 Arab revolt broke out, his family was forced to leave the Old City and move to Zikhron Moshe. As a boy he worked in a cigarette factory, and in 1941 his father fell captive in Crete. He also served in the Royal Navy, and served on supply ships. In April 1946, he was discharged and worked as a taxi driver shortly before joining the Lehi underground movement.

Ganeh joined the 8th Brigade at the beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and served in the 89th Battalion. In November 1948, he participated in the Battle of Iraq Suwaydan, in which he continued to treat the wounded and respond to the shooting while mortally wounded and under heavy fire.[3] For his part in the operation, he was awarded the Hero of Israel medal.[4][5]

After the battle, Siman-Tov's two legs were cut off and replaced with prosthetic legs. Following the war he studied carpentry and worked for awhile as a taxi driver. He got married in 1950 and was a father of three. His middle son was named Ma'agan, after being born on the day Ganeh was saved from the Ma'agan disaster which he had witnessed. During the Six-Day War he volunteered to gather soldiers from transportation stations. In 1967, he began to work as a contractor in military camps. In March 1968, he was hit by an old shell that was ignited from the heat and was killed. After his death, mourning orders were held in IDF units.

References
  1. "Izkor Database of Israel's Fallen".
  2. Doron Bar (12 September 2016). Landscape and Ideology: Reinterment of Renowned Jews in the Land of Israel (1904–1967). De Gruyter. pp. 149–150. ISBN 978-3-11-049378-8.
  3. Bar, Doron (2016). Landscape and Ideology: Reinterment of Renowned Jews in the Land of Israel. Walter de Gruyter. p. 150.
  4. Kahalani, Avigdor (1975). The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War on the Golan. p. xiii.
  5. Efraim, Ram Ben. "שני הנסים של גנה סימן טוב". Gvura.
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