Grodner, Yeshayahu (Shikkele)

Son of Leah and Shmuel, was born in 1915 in Novogrod, Poland. When he was two years old, he and his brother and sister died in one year. His uncle, who lived in the city of Lomza, took him to him and raised him. He studied in the first grades of the elementary school, but his uncle, who did not want the boy to continue to study, took him to help him by profession as a coachman. At the age of 14 he was already independent, left his uncle, returned to his city and worked in carpentry. That same year, he entered the Hechalutz Hatzair movement, was sent to the hachshara and was active in finding additional places of work to train his fellow movement members. In 1933 he immigrated to Israel and joined the “Ha-Sadeh” kibbutz in Rishon Letzion. Stood guard over the conquest of labor in those days, and finally left for Tel Aviv. Here, too, he worked in occupations, such as train sufferings, which had to be fought with the Arab porters. In 1938 he joined Kibbutz Tel Yosef, where he lived until his last days. During the Second World War he accepted the enlistment order of the national institutions and enlisted in the British army. Studied customs, worked in the army as a driver, and served in Syria and Italy. Upon his release he returned to Israel, to his kibbutz, and continued to work in the fodder industry. Finally he worked as a driver in a transport cooperative of the Harod-Beit She’an bloc. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he joined a field force company in the Ein Harod sub-district. During the siege of Jerusalem on March 21, 1948, he volunteered to be the driver of the convoy of food that arrived in the city, and the caravan was attacked by Arab forces and his car was hit immediately and could not continue on its way, He was found dead in the car at the cemetery in Kibbutz Tel Yosef.