Engel, Shmuel

Son of Ahuva and Pinchas, was born in 1926 in a village near the city of Mukachevo in Carpathian Russia (then in Czechoslovakia). We will be educated in the spirit of Zionism in a Hebrew elementary school and later in a high school. When the Hungarian regime returned to the region and the oppression first hit the national Jews, who did not want to assimilate in the Medyarian culture, they were denied the possibility of continuing their high school studies. Shmuel arrived in Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah in 1940. He studied and worked in a training program at the religious youth village near Haifa and was well absorbed in society and agricultural work. Then he worked for a while in Moshav Sde Ya’akov. After receiving his first military training in the Haganah, he volunteered for the Jewish Brigade and served in Egypt, occupied Germany, and liberated Belgium. After being discharged from the army, he began to serve as a rider in Moshav Nahalim, near the borders of Syria and Lebanon. At the beginning of the riots, in the winter of 1948, he entered the Arab village of Hasses, where he was surrounded by about 60 Arabs and when he could not break through with a whip, he was forced to use a pistol he had secretly held without permission. When he was released on bail of 2,000 pounds, he moved to Tel Aviv, married a wife and immediately joined the ranks of the Eastern Upper Galilee, and bravely promised his friends that after all the hardships he had endured, He returned to the dinner on Tuesday, July 10, 1948, and an hour later, about two months later After his wedding, he fell in battle to stop the Syrians in Mishmar Hayarden. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.