Goldwasser, Eliyahu (Eli)
Son of Miriam and Moshe, was born on May 2, 1911, in a village near the city of Sambor, east of Galicia, Poland, where he learned the glazes and was the main supporter of his mother and the entire family. During the years of the Second World War he was uprooted from his city and at the end of the year 1940 he arrived in Israel on an illegal immigrant ship. He participated in the creation of a kibbutz group of members of the Gordonia and Bosalia movements from eastern Galicia and in the small farm in the nuclear camp in Mahaneh Yehuda, near Petah Tikva, he happily and diligently carried on the burden of processing a vegetable garden. Then he worked for a year at Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon. When the hope that the nucleus would go out to settle was taken, he and his wife undertook to work hard as employees in order to reach an independent agriculture. After working for several years as a laborer and agricultural instructor at the girls’ school in Petah Tikva, he settled in the nearby village “gradually” and devoted himself to creating a new farm. Elijah served in the Alexandroni Brigade, was injured while serving in Migdal Tzedek and died a few days later, on the 11th of Tamuz 5708 (18.7.1948) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva.
