Efner, Yosef

Son of Yenta and Pesachiya. He was born in 1904 in Lwow, Poland and was active in the Zionist pioneering movement, and devoted most of his efforts to dealing with those who planned to immigrate to Eretz Israel, including refugees from Russia who were passing through the city on their way to their destination. In 1924, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined a group of pioneers who worked at the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School. In 1929 he joined as a driver of the “Ichud Regev” cooperative that operated in the settlement area. On August 30, 1936, when he was driving a bus in the direction of Ramat Gan and passing by the German Colony, Yosef was shot from a citrus grove towards the bus, where he was killed on the spot and he was laid to rest in the plot of the Tel Aviv Old Cemetery. He left a wife, a daughter and a son.