Bernovsky, Dov

Son of-Sarah and Haim-Zvi. Born in 1906 in Russia. His family was religious and engaged in agriculture. At the age of seven his family left Russia and settled in the colony founded by the Baron Hirsch in Cyprus. In 1927 he immigrated to Eretz Israel. For a while he lived in Tel Aviv and when a group of immigrants from Yugoslavia came to the land in Beit Shearim, Dov joined them. Dov was a cheerful, lively young man with broad ambitions for the future, sharp-headed and bold. He was a mechanic of agricultural machinery and knowledgeable in the field. The isolated Jewish settlements in the Jezreel Valley suffered repeated attacks by Arab harassers. The weapons were very small and Dov, who was a member of the Haganah, began to manufacture primitive bombs in a metal workshop near his home. The riots that took place in the Land of Israel in September 1929 increased the importance of these bombs, and Dov increased the pace of their manufacture, and on September 9, 1929, a bomb exploded in his hand. His hand was amputated and one fragment penetrated his chest. The British first moved to Nahalal and only after the treatment did not help and his fever did not descend was he transferred to a hospital in Haifa, but it was too late. On September 15, 1929, Dov died of his wounds and in order to prevent the British from investigating the circumstances of his death, he was laid to rest in a mass grave of the martyrs of the 1929 riots. After a while a separate tombstone was erected there. He left parents, three sisters, and three brothers.