Fredo, Asher (Echko)

Son of Estrella and Aharon (a veteran Zionist and active in Bulgaria), was born on July 6, 1918 in the city of Salonika, Greece. When he was five, he was orphaned from his mother and returned with his father to the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. After two years, he also died from his father and was educated in his grandmother’s home and uncles. Who graduated from a Hebrew elementary school and a high school with honors, was active as a counselor in Maccabi ha – Tsa’ir, and since 1935 was one of the leaders and activists of the pioneering movement. Who served for two years in the Bulgarian army and completed a school for cadets (officer cadres) and during those years was active in the Zionist movement. In February 1941 he immigrated with his wife to head the first group of immigrants from Bulgaria who had arrived on the Dorian, and after a year and a half of detention in detention camps in Acre and Atlit was released. With his group he participated in a training nucleus in Ginosar and later in Gvat. Where he was instructed to instruct the farm’s children in a group of Hanoar Haoved, where his daughter, the first daughter of the group, was born. At the beginning of 1945 they moved to a camp in Kfar Sava, and since then he devoted himself to working as a liaison between Hechalutz Hatza’ir in Bulgaria and among the pioneers of Bulgaria in the country. Who also worked for the Union for Labor Movement in Bulgaria, completed a seminar for emissaries, but was not sent abroad, but instructed youth working in Petah Tikva. His great energy was abundant, and his love of the Land and his devotion to the movement was harnessed to every action even without being chosen. “You’d better choose another man, I’ll work anyway,” he would say. His service in the movement delayed his immigration to the settlement with his “Eyal” group in Dardera, east of the patient, but during the War of Independence, when the group needed reinforcements, he was sent to it and there he fell on the 9th of Tammuz 5708 (16.7.1948) , Daughter, Noga, and a son who was born after his death, on the 17th of Tammuz 5717 (17.7.1951) was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Netanya.