Gvirtz, Arieh-Leon

Son of Moshe and Shoshana. He was born on April 6, 1948 in Szczecin, Poland. Aryeh suffered from the anti-Semitic attitude of his school friends and demanded that his parents immigrate to Israel. The family immigrated when he was nine years old. In Israel, he completed his studies at the Bachar elementary school in Even Yehuda and later joined the “Youth Group” in the Orim group in the western Negev. He spent his youth in the kibbutz and was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement. He liked to walk, entertain and play and sometimes make pranks. But he also knew how to be serious, to work hard and to help others. His manner was simple and he was brave and intelligent. Arieh was drafted into the IDF in September 1966. In basic training, he gave nothing to his mind, and when he was hinted at what kind of “punishment” he was, he would accept it indifferently. He had always boasted of his actions and always hid behind a modest and quiet smile, and after his discharge from the army he was called up for active reserve duty, as though he had foreseen that something might happen to him, so he told his good friend about the situation in his family and hinted If something happens to him, he trusts him that he knows what to do, and indeed, what was predicted is happening on May 8, 1970, Ria with three of his friends encounter an ambush by terrorists. He was brought to eternal rest. He left a wife and a little daughter. After his fall, a booklet called “Aryeh” was published in his memory.