יונה Yonah Taub, Amnon ben Shlomo

Birth Name יונה Yonah Taub, Amnon ben Shlomo [1]
Birth Name Taub, Amnon ben Shlomo
Also Known As יונה, אמנון בן שלמה

    Amnon אמנון means Faithful in Hebrew.
    Amnon אמנון was the eldest son of King David, and, Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess (1 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Samuel 3:2).
    Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon, in retribution for Amnon´s rape of Tamar, at a feast to which he had invited all King David's sons (2 Samuel 13).

    Yonah יונה means Dove, in Hebrew.
    Yonah יונה is a variant transliteration for Jonah.

Call Name אמנון
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1923 Płońsk Plöhnen, powiat Płoński, województwo Mazowieckie, Polska אמנון טאוב נולד בשנת תרפ"ג

 
Military Service   הגנה Haganah  

 
Military Service 1942 פלמ"ח פלוגות מחץ Palmach, הגנה Amnon Taub Yonah was drafted by Uri Yaffe

Event Note

Amnon Taub Yonah served under Yitzhak Rabin.

 
Military Action June 16, 1946 ליל הגשרים Night of the Bridges מבצע מרכולת Operation Markolet, מלחמת העצמאות (1948) Operation Markolet מבצע מרכולת, Night of the Bridges ליל הגשרים

Event Note

Yisrael Zack cites: "Our group was allowed to take part in the “Night of the Bridges” and we blew up the Sheikh Hussein Bridge over the Jordan, east of Maoz Chaim."

Event Note

On the Night of th Bridges ליל הגשרים, Amnon Yonah served as Commander of the Palmach פלמ"ח squad that blew up the railway bridge over the Yarmuk River נהר הירמוך.

Event Note

Chaya Kozlovsky served as radio operator at Ramot Naftali רמות נפתלי

Event Note

Dan Lener served as an operations Commander during the Night of the Bridges ליל הגשרים.

 
Military Action April, 1948 SS Lino Sinking SS Lino

Event Note

Palmach Information Center cites: "Shaul Avigor received approval from David Ben Gurion in Israel and placed Shalom Levin in charge of the sinking operation" of SS Lino.

Event Note

Palmach Information Center cites: "Yosaleh completed the task of installing the booby trap, made from a motorcyle tube and filled with TNT and interwoven with a fuse, and a number of detonators spread around delay mechanisms. Everything was hermetically sealed in order to prevent water from leaking into the tube."

Event Note

Moniah Medror was Commander of the operation to sink SS Lino.
He asked Amnon Yonah to be his assistant.
Palmach Information Center cites: "They arrived to Bari and received details from Yosaleh."

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Aliyah 1925   Amnon Taub and his parents left Poland for Palestine

Event Note

Amnon Taub's family settled in the Borochov District שכונת בורוכוב of Givatayim גבעתיים.

 

Source References

  1. Missions with No Traces: Sixty Years of Israeli Underground National Security
  2. The Audacity to Live
    1. Page: 83

Pedigree

    1. יונה Yonah Taub, Amnon ben Shlomo