Levin, Daniel (Danke)

Son of Miriam and Chaim. He was born in 1902 in the city of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania. In 1925 he immigrated to Eretz Israel where he worked to dry the swamps around Hadera. He contracted malaria and therefore had to move to Tel Aviv. When a group of pioneers came to Israel called Ha-Kovesh, Daniel joined it and soon became its representative in contacts with the Yishuv institutions. In 1928 he was forced to leave the country because of the malaria that did not leave him, and only years later returned to join the nucleus that established the Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh. After a while, his parents immigrated to Israel and they were absorbed in his kibbutz as friends in every way. With the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936, Daniel was a guard in the Shamrot orchards, and he also played other protective duties in the Gush, mainly in escorting the car that drove his colleagues to work. On 23 Tammuz (July 22, 1938), he fell in a face-to-face battle with a gang that ambushed the car. He was brought to rest in Ramat Hakovesh, where he left parents, a wife and a daughter, and his friends.