Fordi, Avraham (Fabry)

Son of Kathleen and Sandor, was born on May 12, 1922 in Hungary to an assimilated family. He had a high school education. Avraham sought his way and reached Zionism in 1939. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement and since then invested his energies in working for the movement. Fought doggedly against his surroundings, his teachers, and values ​​that did not fit his new outlook. His parents forbade him from doing his Zionist work, but he continued secretly. After a long struggle, he succeeded in influencing his parents to allow him to leave for training. Despite his physical weakness he worked with love and devotion. When the flow of refugees from Slovakia reached the Hungarian border, he was among the first to help them. In spite of the dangers, he worked hard to save lives, hide exiles and provide them with food and rest conditions while he himself hid in towns and villages in fear of the police. Finally he was caught together with other members of the underground and imprisoned in the prison, where he sat for a whole year and taught and taught Hebrew language and culture. When he was released, he joined the “Belsa” organization and organized kashrut. Meanwhile, he was “recruited” to a labor camp and fled from there. In the movement, which went underground, he organized life in a bunker and worked hard to provide food for the ghetto. Abraham was a man of the book and developed intensive cultural work in basements. Was the educator of a group and taught it a chapter in the history of settlement in Israel. He had full faith in the power of the underground and the defeat of the enemy. With all his soul he was preparing for immigration. After the liberation of Hungary, the group remained in hiding for a while, and on the day they set out to save the surviving children and bury the victims of starvation. He was one of the founders of the first “Company of the First of May”. In May 1946, he immigrated to Eretz Israel on a ship called “Max Nordoi”. He was trained in Kibbutz Maanit and gained the respect of the kibbutz members and the trust of his instructors. After that he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Yasur, where he worked in orchards and in the garden and as a locksmith in the factory. In December 1947, with the outbreak of the War of Independence following the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, he was drafted into a unit of the Carmeli Brigade. On the afternoon of March 27, 1948, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but about half of them fell in battle and Abraham among them. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. His memory was included in a booklet published by Kibbutz Yasur.