Adler, Aryeh

Aryeh, son of Batya and Shmuel Adler, was born in 1916 in Slotuna, Slovakia, and immigrated to Israel in 1929. His parents died when he was a child and Aryeh arrived with a group of orphaned children to the Ben Shemen youth village. He was a handsome young man, strong, among the best students in the village and a model for the boys with his goodness, integrity and willingness to help the weaker ones. During the Second World War, Aryeh enlisted in the British Army, served in Italy, and assisted the refugee camps there. After the war he served as secretary of the metal section of Hanoar Haoved in Tel Aviv. He took care of the working boys, inquired about their marital status, helped them with their pain. During the end of his life, he served as an information officer in the Gadna Brigade, and fell on the holiday of Passover on the 18th of Nissan, April 27, 1948, in the Shapira neighborhood, where he was shot and killed by an Arab sniper. He was laid to rest at the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery, leaving a wife, Rachel, and a child, Ehud.