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Brodai, Arie (Broder)

Brodai, Arie (Broder)


Son of Sarah and Zvi, was born in 1900 in the city of Kuritz, Poland. After graduating from the Reali high school in his city, he moved to the Polytechnic in Lvov and completed a teacher’s seminar. In 1933 Arie immigrated to Israel, worked in carpentry in Nahalat Yitzhak and from there moved with his family to Haifa. In Haifa, he taught handicrafts at the Amami A and Geula schools. During the War of Independence, Aryeh was a member of the Haganah, commander of his area of ​​residence on behalf of Mishmar Ha’am; His job was to ensure the correctness of the Hebrew positions in the border area between Hadar Hacarmel and the nearby Arab populated streets. His apartment served as a front position for our fighters. On 13 February 1948, when he tried to reinforce a shutter that was hit by sniper fire, he was hit by a series of shots and died, and was brought to eternal rest in the 1948 area of ​​the Haifa cemetery. He left behind a wife and son, three brothers and a sister. A few days after his death, British soldiers broke into his apartment and confiscated weapons that were found there and were left by the fighters.

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