Levavi, Ochma

Daughter of Sonya and Meir. She was born on June 25, 1923 in Brody, Poland. Her parents were pioneers who immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1920, joined the “Gdud Ha’avoda” and worked on paving the Tiberias-Tabgha road. Due to the harsh conditions, her mother contracted fever and when she was in her final months with Auchma, she went to deliver her to her parents’ home in Poland. She was one of the founders of the Hashomer Hatzair educational institution in Mishmar HaEmek. She passed through the birth pangs of the children’s society in the educational institution of the kibbutz framework, and was deeply connected to her friends, and was particularly prominent in her strong character, adhering to the values ​​on which she was raised: kindness, joy of life and seriousness in her approach to social problems and studies. She worked for a while in the city and after her return to Mishmar Ha’emek she was employed in the care of the children. During the Second World War, she enlisted in the British Army’s Auxiliary Army in February 1942 against the wishes and views of the society in which she lived, but according to her conscience and recognition. On 9 Kislev, November 25, 1944, during her service near Cairo, Egypt, she was killed in a car accident. She was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Heliopolis. She left her parents and brother. Kibbutz published a booklet containing the words of friends in her memory. Also mentioned in the book “The Year of the Journalists”, 1946, in “The Book of Volunteerism” and in the book “Yizkor” published by the Jabotinsky Institute.