Kellenberg, Arie
Son of Yitzhak and Berta. He was born on April 13, 1942 in Kiryat Haim near Haifa. On his seventh birthday, the family moved to Haifa and Aryeh continued his studies, which began at the Kirya and the “Ahuza” elementary school. After graduating from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined the Scouts movement in Haifa, where he went on trips and work camps that he loved very much and joined the Scout movement, He enjoyed the nature of the country and especially the distant corners and its hidden landscapes, and by nature he was modest and did not try to rise above the others. And even when he did not try to prove it, his great love for the sea led him to join the Navy when he arrived in September 1960, when he was alive He worked as a mechanic on the ship “Haifa.” He was diligent and prepared for any job, and when the layoffs began in Haifa and it was hard to find a job he did not hesitate to work in Sodom and Eilat, where he needed professionals. And when he was told that in the meantime there was no need for reservists in the navy to return to the same area. “There are a lot of workers missing and I have to fill their place,” he said. However, he was Simcha when he was finally called to reserve duty for the Eilat destroyer, thinking that he could visit his parents and family a lot, since the ship’s harbor was in Haifa. However, Aryeh did not return from this reserve duty, because on the 18th of Tishrei 5721 (October 21, 1967) a Aryeh was found in the engine room of the destroyer – the Egyptian missiles hit a ship in front of a Romanian beach in northern Sinai and drowned it; It was the second day of his reserve duty, and so in the sea he so loved he found his death and his grave together. And in his memory was erected a memorial monument in the section of the missing persons in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. After that, a gravestone was placed separately in the Haifa military cemetery. His history and things in his memory were presented in the memorial book for the members of Kiryat Hayim who fell in battle – “The Trees Cut Down”, published by the Committee of the Kirya, Yad Lebanim and the Haganah. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.
