Drucker, Shabtai

Son of Pesia and Chaim. He was born on March 17, 1922 in Kuritz, Poland. In 1934, at the age of twelve, he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel. The family settled in Haifa and Shabtai studied at the Reali School and the St. Luke English School, but stopped his studies in the middle to join the Lehi Fighters of Herut Israel (Lehi), where he received his name Zion and participated in several daring and dangerous missions. The country had a deep love and believed that it was only through extreme acts and armed rebellion that the homeland could be liberated from the British enslavement. He was wounded in the leg and taken to the home of Menachem Luntz (“Eliezer”) in Yavne’el. where he had recovered from his wound as a result of his friend’s devoted care. Two days before he was supposed to return to Haifa, the British police arrived at the house, surrounded him and fired a lethal shot at him. The settlers called on them to surrender and save their souls, but they returned fire from their pistols. Zion, who was wounded, asked Eliezer to kill him and the two remaining bullets put an end to their lives. Shabtai was killed on April 14, 1944. He was twenty-two years old when he died. He was brought to rest in Tiberias. He was followed by parents and two sisters. His name was engraved in Lehi’s writings, in “Unknown Soldiers” and “This Valley and These Boys.”