Green, Reuven

Son of Bella and Yehoshua was born in Haifa on June 6, 1930. He studied at the Amami School, continued to study for one year at the Kiryat Hayim High School and moved to a vocational school in Haifa. And joined the “Hashomer Hatzair” movement until he entered Limia, where he aspired to a naval training course and dreamed of joining a naval kibbutz, and he joined the Haganah without the knowledge of his parents, At the same time, the Independence Party regretfully carried out the age decrees that forced him to continue studying while his older friends enlisted and fought, but when his best friend fell, he left school and volunteered to sing On March 27, 1948, at noon, he left Nahariya with a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham. The first armored vehicle managed to break through and reach Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed, and the convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but about half of them fell in battle and Reuven among them was brought to rest in the Nahariya military cemetery. Our friends. “