Gluzsznyder, Arie (Kushi)
Son of Dvora and Haim, was born on 22.1.1928 in Ramat Hasharon. His parents were veteran settlers, one of the founders of the moshava. Aryeh attended the local elementary school where he absorbed his love for the homeland, flora and fauna, continued his studies at the Montefiore vocational school in Tel Aviv and studied in the electrician. After graduating from elementary school he joined Gadna, and at age 15 moved to Hayash. When he entered the Haganah, the admissions committee said, “He’ll be a guy, he’s okay.” Indeed, he devoted himself to his duties with great Lev and soul, performed many dangerous tasks, and discovered military talents. In the evenings he returned home and worked in the farm, and often he kept working in the kibbutz. On the farm at night with a “Tommy” submachine gun or pistol, and he wished to develop the agriculture and relieve his parents of the burden of hard work, never having time for himself. And later moved to the “Ahdut ha-‘Avoda Movement.” He organized the youth of the moshava into the ranks of his movement, served as a liaison The youth movements to the center, knew how to argue, to persuade, and to end it all with a smile, and even when he was in the army, he did not cease to be interested in the party. He was loved by his subordinates, and when they tried to impose something against him, they always answered: “Aryeh said” – and he was a holy man who spent a lot of time teaching, wandering from camp to camp and suffering hardships, but he did not know how to wear arms. There is a mitzvah to honor parents. When he volunteered for a course and his parents objected, he always convinced them and said, “If everyone does so, who will come out?” On the day of the UN General Assembly resolution, 29.11.1947, he was already on duty and maintained an immigrant camp near an Arab village, and he was appointed to serve the nation in January 1948. He trained a number of platoons, He took command of the Kfar Yavetz area for the first time and served for a long time in this position. He went to work in the Arab village of Kfar Sava, Ramat Hakovesh, took part in the battles in Selma, Hiriya, Sakia, devoted himself to fighting and his men trusted him despite his youth. “At such an hour your whole life is concentrated in one focal point – protection,” he told his friends. He fought in Latrun, where the casualties of his company increased. On the verge of the first truce, he returned from Latrun, received a few days’ leave and then completed the reorganization of the platoons and reorganized them and went on many tours on the Tul Karm front. On May 26, 1948, the platoon commanders were called upon to volunteer for a raid on the Iraqi camp in Tulkarem, and as usual volunteered first and was appointed commander of the operation. The brigade’s retraction was hit in the head by a sniper’s fire, he managed to say “I was wounded!” And fell, and Aryeh was laid to rest in the Ramat Hasharon cemetery.
