Goldschlager, Abraham

Son of Bluma and Baruch. He was born on January 6, 1902, in Sniatyn Galicia. From his youth he was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and was educated to follow the path of building and creativity in Eretz Israel. In 1920, after graduating from high school, he immigrated to Israel where he joined the Shomria battalion of his movement, which set up camp near the Haifa – Jeddah road, where today Kibbutz Yagur is situated. He soon adapted to the hard work of paving the road and stood out for his organizational talents and dedication in managing the work and paving the tracks. In the riots of 1921 the battalion dispersed and he moved to Hadera to work for a farmer in the village in order to experience farming and prepare himself for work in the settlement. In 1922, when his group gathered to lay the foundation for “Kibbutz B” on the Neve Shaanan road in the slope of the Carmel, he was among the first founders of the new kibbutz. Here he went through the hardships of those days: lack of work, fever and hard labor in draining swamps, and then went on to learn how to raise cattle in Mikvah Israel. From there he went on to study at the Ginegar group and in 1926 was among ten members who came to the land in Abu Shusha, later Mishmar Ha’emek, to prepare the ground for the establishment of a new kibbutz. After three years of hardships and hardships, the entire kibbutz came to the ground and began to build its agricultural farm. Avraham gave his share by setting up the cowshed. But the years of hard work and suffering had taken its toll, he had rheumatism and was unable to continue his physical labor, but he devoted himself to other sectors of the agriculture. In the summer of 1936 the Kibbutz Ein Hashofet went up to settle in nearby Jouara, and Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek gave Abraham the task of guiding the new settlement, and soon became the driving force behind the settlement activity, planned plans for building the farm, and cultivated good neighborly relations with the surrounding Arabs. (February 28, 1938), he went to Juara in the morning to meet with the neighboring Arabs of Kafrin, and on his way back with another friend, they were attacked by an ambush set by Arabs, who was hit by a bullet and his friend ran for help. Mottel died on the land he loved so much, and he was brought to rest in the cemetery in Mishmar Ha’emek, leaving a wife and two sons on the old road to Ju’ara, close to Wad A memorial monument was erected in his memory, and memorial pages were published in Davar and in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, and his name was also commemorated in the book Memoirs of the Land of Israel.