Uri Goldfarb

Uri Goldfarb was born in 1945 in Budapest

Uri Goldfarb was born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 6, 1945. His parents, Neshka and Zvi Goldfarb, were Holocaust survivors who had been active in the Zionist underground in Hungary. The family moved to the Land of Israel in 1947 and settled in Kibbutz Parod.

He went to elementary school on his kibbutz, to high school at Kibbutz Ginosar, and studied at Tel Hai College. He was a member of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement and later guided a Nahal group of Kadoorie Agricultural School students.

He joined the IDF in 1964, volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, became an officer and fought in the Six-Day War. After regular service he completed an armored company commanders course. In the War of Attrition he commanded a stronghold on the Suez Canal.

On his kibbutz he founded and managed the cotton branch and served as work coordinator. He also worked for a year as a security officer at El Al.

In the Yom Kippur War he was operations officer of Tank Battalion 61 in Brigade 205 on the Golan Heights. He organized the recovery of tanks under fire and took command of the battalion on October 18. He was killed on October 19, 1973, near Umm Butna, and was buried at Parod.