Friedberg, Shraga (Fabian)

Son of Gita and Zvi, was born on April 26, 1915, in a small town in Czechoslovakia, and later lived with his parents in Ternopol, Poland. At the home of his father, who was the president of the “Mizrachi” in his city, he absorbed the Zionist atmosphere. From his youth he was a member of the Hanoar Hazioni Movement. After graduating from elementary school he studied at the Gymnasium and excelled in mathematics. After graduating cum laude he immigrated to Israel in 1935 and began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although he was from a well-to-do family, he refused to receive support from his parents and worked in Jerusalem in various jobs so that he could continue his studies. In 1939 he visited his parents in Poland and with great effort and hardships managed to return to Israel with the outbreak of World War II. In the service of the British army he went to Eritrea and served as a translator. When he returned to Israel, he began working for the Electric Company in Jerusalem, and when the War of Independence broke out after the UN General Assembly decided to partition the country into two states, he joined the Haganah and served as a squad commander in one of the Jerusalem areas. On 12 July 1948, Shraga died when he was wounded during the attack of the Arab Legion on Sheikh Jarrah, Rah. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.