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Bornstein, Shmuel-Avraham

Bornstein, Shmuel-Avraham


Son of Rebekah nee Morgenstern and Aharon (grandson of Admor Sucachov and Sokolov, Poland), was born on February 25, 1928 in the city of Sokolow, Poland, and immigrated to Israel in 1934. He graduated from the Bilu School “And the” Haskalah “Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. Worked in the textile industry, completed his work, reached the rank of textile technician, and went to study at a high school in the United States at the Faculty of Textile Technology at the University of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Gadna and later of the Haganah since the age of 14. Because of long illness, he stopped his studies and activities in the Haganah twice, but by the power of his talents and dedication he quickly completed what he missed during his illness. Shmuel-Abraham was supposed to go on a study program in the United States in 1947, but with the worsening of the political situation he did not want to leave the country, claiming that “the general interest precedes the individual.” At the time of the UN resolution on partition he lay in a hospital with a serious illness, and when he left, and it was his turn to enlist, in January 1948, he left the doctors with the remains of his illness and weakness and went to full service in the Golani Brigade, After he stopped training, he was appointed commander of a class and took part in the battles of Mishmar Ha’emek, and he rejected a back-office proposal and chose to be with his men in the front row. (May 27, 1948) in defense of harvesters in the fields of Tel Adashim, fell in battle with a gang. Shmuel-Avraham was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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