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Leibowitz, Yosef

Leibowitz, Yosef


Son of Shabtai and Hannah. He was born on Thursday, June 2, 1900 in Czechoslovakia, grew up in a traditional atmosphere and was educated in this spirit, not only graduating from high school but also a Torah scholar and a disciple of the late Rabbi Yehudah Greenwald A court in the Satmar community), which authorized him to teach. He was an enthusiastic Zionist and an active member of the Hapoel Hamizrahi movement, and even participated as a member of his party in several Zionist congresses. He participated in the First World War. During the Second World War he was in a concentration camp, and at the end of the war he let him rebuild everything and bring the youth back to the spirit of Zionism and Judaism. Upon his arrival in Israel in 1949, he settled with his family in the village of Azor, where he established a school of the Mizrachi and founded a synagogue. He served in the IDF until April 1953. He served in the army in April 1953. He died on the 10th of Adar 5708 (March 1, 1958) and died at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.

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