Fobisticki, Reuven

Son of Anna and Louis, was born on May 17, 1927 in the city of Konigsberg, in East Prussia. From the age of 9 onwards, he grew up and studied the atmosphere of oppression and hostility of the Nazi regime and, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, was handed over to the Youth Aliya and transferred to training in Denmark. At the end of 1940 he arrived in Israel and completed his agricultural education and training in the immigrant youth movement in Mishmar Ha’emek. He was then accepted to Kibbutz Mizra and began working in the cowshed, a profession he trained and practiced at Mishmar Ha’emek. Reuven became familiar with the place and lifestyle of the kibbutz and even began building his family’s cell there. He worked diligently, and although in public and ideological conversations he stood out in his quietness, the few friends who knew him closely testified, on the basis of his brief and poignant remarks, that he had penetrated into the depths of the problems and weighed them in his mind. In the winter of 1948, at the outbreak of the War of Independence, he took part in a joint operation to expel the Kaukji gangs from Nazareth, where he fell in the Balfour Forest on the seventh day (14.7.1948) and was brought to rest in the cemetery in Mizra. His memory was raised in a book published by Kibbutz Mizra in memory of the six fallen soldiers.