Hazkalevich, Micha-Zvi

He was born in 1914 in Slonim, Poland, the only son of a devout Lubavitcher Chassid, who studied in yeshiva and aspired to combine Torah and tradition with the Land of Israel and was therefore active in the movement. His family immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934. He was also a member of Agudath Israel in Pardes Hanna, Petach-Tikva and Jerusalem, where he came to the communities of the Torah and organized religious circles, especially for religious workers. In 1938, at the height of the events of 1936-1939, he was a volunteer notary in Tiberias. On 8 Tishrei, October 3, 1938, he and his friend stood on guard at the entrance to the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood of Tiberias, and heard shots down the hill. After that, a gang of Arab rioters who numbered close to 15 people burst into the neighborhood from the direction of Nazareth. Zvi and his friend, who tried to stop the attackers, were the first victims of that night of terror in Tiberias. Twenty Jews from Tiberias, among them children and old people, were killed that night. Zvi was buried in the Tiberias cemetery in a mass grave, along with the other victims of the attack. His name was published in Davar.