Ganieli, Gabriel (Gavrushka)

Son of-Nechama and son of-Zion. He was born on November 28, 1915, in Theodosia in Crimea. After the outbreak of the revolution in Russia, his parents, who had Zionist consciousness, decided to immigrate to Eretz Israel. After many convulsions on the way and staying in Turkey for four years, they arrived in Israel in 1924. In Constantinople, Gabriel began his studies and when the family arrived in Israel they went to a school of “Kol Yisrael Haverim”. After graduating he began to work as a car mechanic, specialized and did well in his profession. He later joined Betar and was active in the youth movement and was part of a group of Betar bikers who went on a tour abroad in an information campaign. With the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, he became one of the activists in a boycott that his movement had directed against German goods and even prohibited this activity. During the 1936 riots, he was assigned to the police and his main activity was collecting material about the Arab gangs, informing the Irgun about the police operations against illegal immigration and helping the underground plan evasion. When gang attacks on the Yishuv increased, he joined the army to protect settlements. On October 13, 1938, in an attack on the orchards of Gush Tamarkin near Nes Ziona, he was killed in a clash with gang members after a long and difficult battle. He was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery near Tel Aviv. His memory was immortalized in the book “Zachremam Netzach” and “Sefer Nes Nes Ziona”.