Efroni (Skobronik), Yechiel Natan

Son of Fruma and David Zvi Halevy. Born in 1902 in Warsaw, Poland, in 1917 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, joined a group of pioneers and worked with him to dry the swamps of Kebra and the Sharon orchards, and since then he has been constantly working to influence his family, bankers and wealthy merchants. After a few years’ effort, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Bat Galim, near Haifa, where he began to study correspondence in correspondence, and after a few years he received his diploma and title, and was sent to work in the Department of Public Works of the Mandat Government. He spent a long time in the detention camp at Atlit as the chief engineer of the paving project (Wadi Ara) because of his comfortable and pleasant disposition, he liked the prisoners, Jews and Arabs alike, and also helped establish connections between the Atlit camp headquarters and the Hagana institutions, and was married to the Kiryat Motzkin council. On 26 Tevet, January 30, 1937, when he returned home from work, the bus he was driving near Abu Ghosh was attacked by Arab murderers, Yechiel was wounded in the stomach and killed on the spot, and was brought to eternal rest in the Martyrs’ Section on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.