Barzily (Zeliznik) Aryeh

Son of Bluma and Yosef, was born on October 16, 1929 in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, and in 1934 immigrated to Israel with his parents. He studied at the Tel-Nordoi Municipal High School and in the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had a strong desire to build the future of the nation and the land on the foundations of justice and social purity. Aryeh was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and moved to the Mahanot Ha’olim and came to the Scouts movement, where he left for training in Dafna in the fall of 1947 to fulfill the duty of service. Aryeh served in the Haganah from the age of 15 and was imprisoned by the British Due to the distribution of a leaflet. In his letters to the parents, he described the idyll of agricultural work and continued with such words of relief even after the beginning of the War of Independence and the training of more and more military positions within the framework of the Palmach. On the night of April 19-20, 1948, he left with his unit for the second attack on the police fortress in Nebi Yosha, successfully completing his first position and breaking the barbed wire surrounding the courtyard.Afterwards, serving as a liaison between the saboteurs who penetrated into the yard and the ones outside. Under the rain of enemy fire, he passed through the breach five times, and the last time he was hit by a cluster of bullets and fell on the 12th of Nissan 5708 (20.4.1948.) On 21 May 1948 Aryeh was laid to rest in a grave in Nebi Yusha together with the rest of his friends who fell there .