Druzdik, Naomi
She was born on 21 August 1927 in Tel Aviv. She moved with her parents to Migdal Tzedek, from there to Atlit and then back to Tel Aviv, where she attended the school for the children of workers and completed the Levinsky Teachers’ College. From the age of 11 she was a member of the Ha – Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement, the Nachshonim Battalion. She served as a counselor and worked for the local leadership in Tel Aviv and in Ramotim. In 1947, Somal operated among the refugees who came from evacuated Jaffa neighborhoods. Excelled in the feelings of friendship, with integrity, with love for nature, for the landscape, for flowers. She wrote: “Around the mountains, the flowers bloomed, the anemones, the Yaffa cyclamens … A wonderful sight – how wonderful the sunsets are – I often regret that I can not paint them” 1948, after four of its members fell in battle and demanded that she be released from the training work in the movement and let her go to the scene of the campaign. She came to Jerusalem in a dangerous way, when the car in which she was riding was attacked by the Arabs, and the Gush went out in secret, because it was not given a place in the convoy. After she became a member of the Hagana and received her training, life in the kibbutz was not the hardest. She bore the burden willingly, took part in guarding and observation, and believed in victory. “I feel good here, really good,” she wrote to her parents. When the kibbutz was removed from the Yishuv, the only way to the kibbutz was through the air. Twice a plane managed to help the place and when it landed for the third time, Naomi ran towards him and did not feel the propeller spinning quickly. He hit her and she was killed on the 13th of Adar 5708 (February 23, 1948). On the fifteenth day of March 17, 1949, she was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
