Baruch (Booby) Amon (Rubenstein) was born on April 29, 1927, in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents, Yehuda and Bat Zion Rubinstein, made aliya in 1928 when Baruch was 11 months old. They were actors with the Habima national theater. They went to Europe on a professional tour when Baruch was two and a half and returned when he was four. In 1944, Baruch graduated high school at the Gymnasia Herzliah in Tel Aviv. He then spent three years in the Coast Guard and a year as a Guard ('Noter').
In 1946 he began studying at the Hebrew University and after the UN Partition Resolution in 1947 until July 1948 he participated in most of the battles in Jerusalem as a member of the Haganah. He was engaged to be married.
On 18 July 1948, an hour before the Second Truce went into effect, he was killed by a shot to the head from an Arab sniper. On 28 February 1950 he and the other casualties of the battle for Abu-Lehem were reburied in a common grave on Mt. Herzl.
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