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Kasher, Yitzhak

Kasher, Yitzhak


Son of Perl and Aryeh. He was born on May 1, 1939 in Ruzishts, Poland, to a religiously observant Jewish family, who was educated in private schools and was educated by private tutors after World War I. He left his home and went to Jewish settlements in Kherson In order to prepare himself for agricultural work in preparation for emigration to Eretz Israel, where he moved to Eretz Israel with a group of pioneers who left the city of Lutsk. He went up to the land to Israel In 1932 and he went to live in the village of Kfar Vitkin, where he worked diligently with his family in Kfar Vitkin, where he managed to establish a flourishing farm in 1932. At the same time, he established a cooperative and learned English so that he could read scientific literature on the growth of bees, but he did not abandon Jewish studies at any given time, and in the bloody events of 1936 he joined the ranks of the Haganah. On 19 Cheshvan, November 4, 1936, he and several friends from Kfar Vitkin went to the beach to load their carts into a building. In the back two Arabs approached them and at a short distance fired at them and hit Yitzhak. He was hit in the leg and taken to the Petach Tikva hospital where they had to amputate his leg, but the amputation did not help, and that evening he died. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Kfar Vitkin. He left a wife, two daughters, a mother, two sisters and two brothers. In the book “The 1936 Riots,” it was written, among other things: “An abundance of energy and creativity were in it. We always saw him happy and cheerful despite the difficult conditions in the new settlement. “A list in his memory was also published in the journal “Talmim”.

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