Bornstein, Zvi

Son of Rivka and Aryeh-Yehuda, was born on the 10th of October 1909 in the city of Staszow, Poland. Zvi went on a training course in the Hehalutz movement to prepare himself for immigration to Eretz Israel, and in 1931 he fulfilled his dream, immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Beit Alpha. He was loyal to work and to society and was always willing to accept any role he was asked to fulfill. Tzvi was a man of friends, Simcha and cheerful, and he loved to entertain his friends with entertaining stories and descriptions about his Jewish and gentile city dwellers On April 1, 1948, Enemy concentrations were seen at the intersection of the Roman road and the Gilboa summit, and the members who worked outside the agriculture hurried back to the area of ​​the kibbutz, and when the bombardment of the kibbutz began, Zvi continued to stand guard until he was hit by shrapnel. Zvi was brought to eternal rest in the Beit Alpha cemetery. He left a wife – Laska and two children, Ramah and Yehuda. His youngest daughter, who was born after her fall, was named for her father: Zivia. Shortly before he fell, he discovered that two children from his family had survived the Holocaust and he hoped to adopt them – but he did not.