Averbuch, Shaul

Son of Sara and Emanuel, was born in 1908 in Vishkhoch, in Bessarabia, Romania, to a family of land workers. His childhood was spent in vineyards, fields and forests, on the coast of the Dniester. Afterward he moved to Kishinev, where he studied carpentry, but always settled after agriculture and was well versed in all its branches. “I feel the field,” he would say, “the machines are not in my spirit.” Shaul was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Bessarabia and prepared himself to immigrate to Israel. In August 1935 he immigrated to Israel, joined Kibbutz Shamir (then near Ramat Yohanan) and worked in the Haifa port. During the 1936-1937 riots he joined the “Fire Brigades” under Wingate and participated in many tours. In 1938 he moved with a company from Shamir to Kibbutz Negba. While in Giv’at Ganim (Nahalat Yehuda) he worked as a carpenter, carpenter and carpenter and took part in security activities and was one of the pillars of the defense system in Negba. Shaul had gray smiling eyes, sturdy, brave and kind. Quiet and humble as a man of work in times of peace, but his value was especially evident as a soldier fighting with supreme courage, self-sacrifice and self-sacrifice, without cold, cold and punctual in every hour of danger. He received every order willingly, but his Lev did not allow him to command others, so he always took the lead in every action. From the beginning of May 1948 he was active in the vicinity of Negba and headed the Palmach and Hayash groups; Was the right hand of the commander of the Negba, Yitzhak Dubno, who served as a machine gunner during the Egyptian attacks on the kibbutz, (19.7.1948), he set out to lay mines around an Egyptian tank that was stuck between Negba and Iraq-Suidan, and was killed by a landmine explosion – a few hours after the second truce took effect – Shaul was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Negba.