Amnon Inbar

Amnon Inbar was born in 1926 in Kielce

Amnon Inbar was born Yerachmiel Alter Bornstein in 1926 in Kielce, Poland. In 1934 he moved with his family to the Land of Israel and grew up in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Bilu school and at the Moria and Gordon gymnasiums, and was a member of Zionist youth movements.

He joined the Haganah in 1941 and fought in the War of Independence with the Givati Brigade, including the battles for the Negev and Latrun. He left regular service in 1952 as a captain and stayed in the reserves. In the Six-Day War his battalion took Tulkarm, and he then served for about 3 months as governor of Jenin.

After some years in the diamond trade, he began working for the Ramat Gan municipality in 1964. In 1971 he led a delegation to Malawi and helped set up a local youth movement, and changed his name to Inbar. In 1978 he became commander of the Ramat Gan fire station, a post he held during the Gulf War.

From 1994 he worked on the team that founded Modiin until he retired in 2000. He chaired the Maccabiah safety committee from 1977 and later headed the Maccabi Order. He was married to Hana and had 3 children, and he died in January 2016.