Friedman, Meir

Rachel Son of-Shalom, was born on Thursday Cheshvan Trtz”g (11/04/1932) Bialystok, Poland. He studied at the Hebrew school of “culture” and as the summer of 1939 with his classmates camp Druskieniki World War II. Road has gone wrong with troops and can no longer to get home. influx graph it with friends and educates them to the Russian zone. his parents and younger sister were destroyed by the Nazis and he lives five years Nee orphanage near the city Srfol Russia and excelled in his studies and social activity in the government school. there he received a letter from his uncle, Haifa and decided to immigrate to Israel at the end In 1947 he returned with his friends to Poland, joined the “Dror” kibbutz and moved with his friends to a children’s home near Paris and later He immigrated to Israel on the ship Theodor Herzl and was sent to Cyprus, where he devoted himself to completing his knowledge of Hebrew, and on December 23,1947 he arrived in Israel in a convoy of Youth Aliyah and was sent with his group to the youth group at Kibbutz Gesher. He decided to continue on this path, and when his uncle came from Haifa to take him to the city, he rejected the invitation, and was ready for his class because of his quick grasp and advantage of his knowledge of Hebrew, He did his service with courage and agility. During the Arab Legion’s great attack on Gesher he was wounded by a shell, taken to the hospital and died on May 16, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva,