Karniel, Shmuel (Tedzio)

Son of-Tema and Pinchas was born on 19.10.1901 in the city of Buczacz, Galicia (at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) in a traditional Zionist house. In 1916, after the Russians invaded the city during the First World War, he moved with his family to Vienna, and in 1917 he participated in the founding conference of the ” Hashomer Hatza’ir. “When he returned to Buczacz, he began Zionist activities among the youth and was therefore expelled with his friends from the school. In July 1920, the group traveled to Israel without passports and documents and crossed the border into the Czech Republic, where they stayed for a few weeks in secret and anonymously, and were transferred to Vienna and Pressburg in September of that year. He joined the road-building camp and worked on the Afula-Nazareth road in 1922. In 1922 he went to settle in Beit Alfa with Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzair, and Shmuel was a central figure in the kibbutz: One of the most dedicated members and is full of organizational and social roles. After the split in Beit Alpha in 1940, he moved with other members to Ramat Yochanan and immediately became one of the pillars of the company in his new place as well. Was the manager of the dairy industry and raised him to a high level. His co-workers saw him as a guide, and the relationship between him and them was warm and appreciative. He refrained from criticism and was always willing to advise. Did his work and the work of others without complaint, and did not take care of the number of hours worked. “Shmuel has a Shabbat – he works in a Shabbat garment,” the group said. He managed to maintain a balance between the practical work and the organizational roles to which he had been sued all his life, because he was very comfortable with people, patient and restless. He was known as the best job orderly. He had a clear position on every social and economic question, but he never failed and did not spare himself an effort to explain his position with pleasant words. Every day he fulfilled what he had demanded from others. Was the man of compromise in the group and devoted his whole Lev to the whole. During the War of Independence, during the Druze attack on Ramat Yochanan, he commanded a position. From time to time he crept into the fire barn. Toward evening he could not bear the withering of the hungry wagons and when the shots subsided a little, he felt the cowshed with buckets of milk and put them in front of the wagons, and here a bullet hit his stomach. Shmuel was circumcised and died on April 12, 1948. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Ramat Yochanan, leaving a wife, a wife (drink) and two sons, Amnon and Zvi. “He said.