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Harari Berger, Dov

Harari Berger, Dov


Son of Meir and Tzipora. He was born on the 7th of Tevet 1917 in the city of Barameche in Bessarabia, and his father, who was a merchant and a Hebrew teacher at the Jewish Community Gymnasium, was an avid Zionist and prominent delegate to the regional conventions of the World Zionist Organization. Hebrew, and Ahavat Zion, and at the age of about four you received his father, and since then the burden of living on the mother’s shoulders has been on the shoulders of the mother, a dentist, according to her profession. , And was accepted by the school as an exceptional student, and soon became one of the outstanding members of his group. Time Hebrew. Childhood was spent in loneliness multiplayer and endless reading. At ten past Ackerman, where he lived at his uncle, and at the age of junior started studying in high school “culture” and at the same time was also a government examinations and received a scholarship. The years of separation from his mother’s home enabled him to live independently and responsibly. At the age of 15, in May 1932, he immigrated to Israel with his mother and sister, and all the desires that deepened in his soul began to materialize. He began to show his public activity by being elected to the branch committee and immediately afterward to the secretariat, and in 1934 he joined the Haganah and moved from Hanoar Haoved to Socialist Youth, the young guard of the Poalei Eretz Yisrael party. From 1936-1939 he was sent on behalf of the Haganah to the southern and northern regions to train young people in defensive ways and was elected as a member of the “Pioneering Socialist” In 1938, he was one of the initiators and organizers of a labor camp on behalf of Habarut, and among the members of this camp he succeeded in creating a nucleus of settlement. In the early 1940s he became the national secretary of the “Baharut” organization, but when the Jewish Agency issued an order, he decided to join the ranks of the British army and enlisted. Saw the call as a temporary order and to put his friends before a fact was registered at the British conscription office and not the Bureau of the agent S; This was in May 1941. His soul did not know that he was also in the ranks of the army, because the echoes reached by European Jewry, which had been occupied by Hitler, took his rest and he sought a way out of the job demanded of him. At the end of 1942, when they arrived in the first ranks of horror from the Diaspora, he was a soldier in the Artillery Corps in Haifa. He thought of paratroopers and then underwent parachuting training in Israel. In May 1944, he underwent a special course in Cairo and was Simcha to leave with his paratroopers in Europe that year. He also worked on a special mission in Romania. When the paratroopers were returned to their homes at the war’s orange, he was allowed to remain there as an interpreter and as an officer in the British Command, whose function was to supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement; But he devoted all his free time to the affairs of Aliya, the establishment of the Zionist movement, Hechalutz, and so forth, without limitation within his movement. Among his other activities there he published dozens of books and pamphlets in the Romanian language on the history of Zionism, the workers’ movement in Palestine, settlement, political struggle and more. In June 1946 he returned home to his friends and movement. In the same year he married and established his home on Kibbutz Beit Oren. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he was drafted into the IDF and engaged in cultural affairs against his will to be in a combat unitAnd in 1952 he took a special course. At the end of the course he founded and headed the Graduate School of Political Science in Jerusalem. By the power of his personality he would have kept his men on alert to act for our common cause: not by orders alone, but by persuasion and clarification of purpose. Dov showed courage that was exemplary to his people who loved him. He had planned every operation with all its details and grammar without any trace of authority and authority. He knew his men and their despondency and inquired about their personal problems, their worries and their troubles. A pleasant man of friends was the man of the book, the thought, the manners, the manners, and the conversation. Throughout his life, his loyalty and devotion to him stood out. On the 28th of Tammuz 5714 (29.7.1954) he fell in the performance of his duties in Kibbutz Ma’agan; This was at a rally in memory of the parachutists who were on a mission to Europe during the Second World War. At the time of the ceremony, a low-flying airplane crashed and as a result Dov found his death. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. left a wife and a son; His daughter was born about four months after they fell. In “Thirty” appeared a leaflet of the battalion containing several notes about him and his memory. On the third anniversary of his death, his friends and admirers published a collection of his memoirs, his diary, and even some of his notes. In 1963, the city of Ramat Gan was commemorated by reading a street in one of its neighborhoods named for him. His mother donated a prize to his name and memory, which was awarded annually at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to the outstanding student in the social sciences. With the inauguration of the Memorial Hall at the Carmel Hall in Beit Oren in July 1964, a booklet was published in memory of them and a list of two other people whose lives were redeemed at the memorial ceremony at Ma’agan. His name was also engraved on the monument erected at the Paratroop House and a memorial page was dedicated to him in the booklet “Asher Dropped to Their People”, which was published by Kibbutz Maagan and the Jewish Agency’s Information Department.

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