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Gennani, Uri

Gennani, Uri

Son of Chaya and Shmaryahu, was born on 26.5.1912 in the city of Karka, Poland, and was educated in an assimilated environment. In 1927 he immigrated to Israel. Was initially at Kvutzat Shiller, and later joined the “HaNoar Haoved” group that established Kibbutz Na’an. After a while he left the kibbutz and worked as a salaried worker in Rehovot – paving roads, orchards and drilling wells, and finally as a driver. He joined the “Menahem” organization, settled in the village of Warburg and in 1939 became the village’s chauffeur. Uri was strong, self-confident, courteous and quiet. In the 1929 riots he stood in the village’s defense excavations. In the events of 1936-1939, he burned his life in dangerous ways. Even the danger of death that raged on the roads at the outbreak of the War of Independence did not prevent Uri from serving his village. On December 11, 1947, about two weeks after the United Nations announced the partition of the country, when he was on his way from Tel Aviv to southern Israel in a convoy, his convoy was attacked by gunfire in the village of Yasur. He was brought to rest at the cemetery in the village of Warburg, and left a wife and two children.

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