On April 5, 1953, two soldiers Yitzhak Lichtenberg from Kfar Hess and Binyamin Notman from Tel Mond, were murdered while walking at midnight from Kfar Hess to Tel Mond.
The two young men had spent the last night of Passover with relatives in Kfar Hess. Near midnight, they set out on foot for Tel Mond, where their families lived. Accompanying them was Chaim Koska, who was wounded in the incident. As they walked along a road passing between citrus groves, approximately 300 meters before reaching Tel Mond, two Arabs emerged and opened fire on them. Binyamin Notman and Yitzhak Lichtenberg were hit and killed on the spot. Koska, wounded in the leg, crawled with his last strength to the home of Abigail Weizmann, the Tel Mond nurse. She bandaged his wounds and called for the security forces.
The tracks of the murderers led toward Qalqilya.
On June 12, 1953, Shoshana (Rosa) Helfman and her husband Zvi were murdered in a terrorist infiltration into Kfar Hess.
A group of infiltrators entered Kfar Hess at around 1:00 a.m. and approached the Helfman home near the village’s water reservoir, located on a hill. They threw a grenade toward the window. The window screen deflected the grenade outside the house, where it exploded. Immediately afterward, the attackers approached the house and fired inside with submachine guns. Shoshana Helfman was killed instantly; her husband Zvi was severely wounded and later died from his injuries.
On the night of December 15, 1956, Tel Mond was shaken by a massive explosion. Terrorists infiltrated and planted explosives in the Ziv family villa in Tel Mond, causing a huge blast that killed Shimon Vig, the gardener and caretaker.
Eliezer Esterin described the explosion as follows:
“One night at the end of 1956, my daughter was already in bed, and I sat beside her, telling her a story. Suddenly, we were jolted by a tremendous explosion. The windowpanes nearly shattered, doors flew open, and chandeliers began to sway as if they would fall on our heads. At first, we had no idea what had happened. We were certain it was an earthquake. There had been one before, but it was very weak. I immediately took my daughter out of bed, dressed her, and prepared to go outside. Everyone else was doing the same, and almost all the neighbors were outside their homes, asking each other what had happened, but no one knew. Finally, a few guards arrived and informed us that something had happened at the Ziv villa. At first, it was unclear whether the explosion had been caused by terrorists or by gas tanks. Later, the full story was revealed.”
Source: Tel Mond Bloc Documentation Archive – Esterin Writings, p. 251.