"The Battle of Khirbet Korikur": The survivors of the..

On 11 Tammuz 5708 (July 18, 1948), two young men, Zvi Shik and Mordechai Steinberger, set out with their friends from the Palmach's religious department on an operational mission in the Khirbet Korikur area (today in the Modi'in Illit and Shilat junction area). No one imagined that the mission would turn into a deadly ambush that would claim the lives of 45 fighters, including these two young men. Zvi Shik was born on 1 Bishav 1926 (January 16, …