Berl, Avraham

Son of Yosef. Born in 1886 in Rovno, Poland, he grew up in a traditional family, his father was a shochet and a chazan in his city, and taught his only son Torah and mitzvot. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1908 and settled in the settlement of Gedera, where he trained himself as an agricultural laborer, after which he purchased a plot of land in Hadera with the intention of setting up a farm with fruit orchards and a flower garden and then bringing to Israel his family that remained in the Diaspora. After several months of work in the field in Hadera, he took on the role of guard in Sejera. He stayed there for four months and was then ordered to move to Yavne’el for guard duty, and on the last night of his stay in Sejera, June 2, 1910, his friends offered him to rest and sleep there and in the morning to move to his new place. Avraham refused and was killed that night on guard duty. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sejera, and then his bones were transferred to Kfar Giladi.