Leshner, Arie (Ari)

Was born on April 4, 1915 in New York City, New York, USA Arieh attended elementary school and went on to high school and was later admitted to the New York City College Where he studied for four years in the Humanities, especially in matters of education and teaching, and received his Zionist-Zionist education at the “Kinder-Ravelt” school of the Po’alei Zion movement and in the summer camps of that movement. “And after three years he was one of the organizers and initiators of the Habonim educational movement, and in the spring of 1936 he worked in the movement’s summer camps in Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere. He was educated at the Krimridge farm, but a year later he was forced to return to work at the movement, one of its leaders, and in 1940-1942 he coordinated educational activities and worked at the movement’s New York Center and edited the Habonim youth newspaper “Habonim.” In 1942 he enlisted in the Navy, And in 1945 he left the army and returned to work in the movement secretariat until January 1946, when he concentrated on recruiting volunteers for the illegal immigration activities. Aryeh himself was one of the first volunteers and left with the first two ships from America. In 1946, he arrived in Israel on a Haganah ship and joined the Habonim kibbutz in Kfar Blum, where his wife, who preceded her emigration, sat. In the kibbutz he worked in construction and finally in electrician. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, when he repaired an electricity cable that was part of the protective net around the farm, he was hit by an Arab sniper and died on Wednesday, March 15, 1948. He was laid to rest at the Kfar Blum cemetery. A wife and a daughter.