Alexander, Shimon (Acsi)

Son of Helena and Julius. He was born in Bethesh, Poland on December 26, 1919. He spent his childhood in his hometown, where he studied at the local school and was a member of the “Tekhelet Lavan” youth movement. He joined Kibbutz Ramat-Hakovesh and then moved to Kfar Giladi, where he was among the members of the nucleus from Nahariya who founded Kibbutz Ga’aton in 1940. He was a cheerful young man who loved life and was ready to help anyone in need of support and welfare, And his feelings and impressions expressed in his stories and in his illustrations of these stories, and in his works he expressed his great love for man and nature, and especially for the landscape of the country. The life of the kibbutz and was among the first to volunteer for any task, guided immigrant immigrants anxiety-ridden and handled youth groups. In 1942 he joined the Palmach and served there for three years, most of the time at Kibbutz Givat Brenner. His thorough knowledge of his many tours throughout Israel enabled him to become a youth counselor to familiarize himself with the country, and he enjoyed everything on his long walks with his students. In 1946 he participated as a member of the Kibbutz Artists’ Circle in an exhibition prepared for a conference in Kibbutz Yagur dedicated to She’erit Hapleitah. In this exhibition he edited the paratroopers’ corner and this was one of his artistic contributions to his kibbutz: He designed the Jewish holidays for their renewed content, prepared illustrated Passover Haggadot, painted caricatures for various events, built toys for children and published a leaflet for soldiers called ” “The Night of the Bridges” was held in the framework of which Palmach units set out to blow up eleven bridges of roads and railways in eight places in the country, in order to detach them from the neighboring countries. To blow up two bridges, the railway bridge and the road bridge, which rested on Nachal Akhziv. The unit encountered fire and the fourteen bridges were killed. Thirteen of them, including Alexander, were killed when the fire hit the explosives they were carrying, and the railway bridge was destroyed by the fighters who took shelter between its pillars. He was 27 years old. He was brought to rest in a mass grave in the cemetery on the Carmel coast. He left behind a wife and two sons. In 1968, the remains of the thirteen men were transferred to a grave that was dug in the Lev of the monument erected in memory of the fallen. Kibbutz Neot Mordechai, the home of his wife and sons, published a pamphlet in his memory, which included the words of friends and family about his character; The kibbutz also commemorated the founding of a club bearing its name and dedicating a memorial corner to him and his friends who fell in the operation.