Leder, Aryeh

Aryeh Leder, son of Sonia (Sarah) Leder Kopchin and Mordechai Mintzman (he was named after the mother’s family because his father died when he was six months old), was born on 25.12.1927 in Zamosc, Poland. Aryeh was in the Russian section and immigrated to Israel with the Teheran Children in 1943. Aryeh joined the youth company in Degania B, moved with the youth company Ein Harod (worked in the bakery) and devoted himself to learning the Hebrew language. A unit in Poland, and in order to be able to support him he moved to work in the city, but did not hold out and returned to the youth society, after his group moved to Na’an. And his mother came to Cyprus (with his mother at the time of the outbreak of the War of Independence following the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947). Dividing the country into two states, went down with his friends to the Negev, and continued to work in a conscripted training unit at Beit Ha’arava, in Sodom and finally in the Negev Brigade. Aryeh left with his class on a tour of the border towards Nirim. The class accidentally entered the village of Shout, where an Arab crowd tried to stop it. In the ensuing battle he fell on 26th of Kislev 5708 (9.12.1947) and did not meet with his mother, who arrived in Israel after they fell. He was buried in the military cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak.