Ben-Yehuda (Bornstein) and Avraham

Son of Pnina (Pearl) and Yehuda. He was born in 1895 in Bazarki, Poland, to a religiously observant family and was a yeshiva student. As a youth, he joined the “Hebrew Revival” movement and in 1910 immigrated to Eretz Israel. In Israel he worked as an agricultural laborer in Petach Tikvah and in Kfar Uriah, as a guard at the Gedera vineyard and later joined the son of Shemen group. During the First World War, he enlisted in the Jewish Legion, “the first of Judah,” which was part of the British army. After the liberation of the country by this army, he moved to Atarot, north of Jerusalem. He also worked for Tnuva in Jerusalem as an expert on dairy products. Abraham read a lot of books and bought him books. At the beginning of the 1936 riots, returning from a Jerusalem bus to his home in Sha’arot, the bus was attacked by a gang of Arab rioters and Abraham was wounded in the pelvis. He was brought to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where he was operated and five days later, on the 28th of June, 1936, he died. He was laid to rest at Atarot cemetery. He left a wife, a boy and a girl. His memoirs were published in the books “Blood and Fire – the 1936-1937 Riots” and “The Events of 1936.” An investigation conducted in 2017 found that his resting place was in Atarot, Israel.