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Hadari (Citronovsky). Zvi Natan

Hadari (Citronovsky). Zvi Natan


Son of Chava and Abraham. He was born on July 9, 1917 in Lodz, Poland, to a religiously observant family, but he did not refrain from studying secular studies at the commercial school in his city. After completing his studies, he worked in a metal factory belonging to his parents and helped support the family. In Lodz, he joined Betar and planned to leave his parents’ home and Poland and illegally immigrate to Eretz Israel, where he was allowed to realize his plan, left the house without the knowledge of his family and tried to steal the Romanian border. He went to Czernowitz, Romania, where he worked illegally for a while, working nights in a socks factory, and from there he continued to Palestine in 1938. In Palestine, he joined the work battalions of a house After the split in this organization in the summer of 1940, he joined the ranks of the Lehi. He spent two years as head of the Lehi branch in Rishon Letzion, where he and his colleagues broke into the police in Beit Dagon, Rehovot and Nes Ziona, and fell into the hands of the British authorities after he was informed and sat in various prisons: Acre, Jerusalem, Mizra and Latrun. The prison in Akko was tortured and beaten severely, and because of his many escapes, he was even shackled to his bed, which caused him severe kidney disease, and his illness was so severe that the British rushed to release him. 1944), died of his illness at the Hadassah Hospital in Tel Aviv and was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.

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