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Levin, Noach (Noika)

Levin, Noach (Noika)


Son of Cherna and Joseph (Yosipon), was born in 1899 in the city of Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine. At the beginning of 1921, he set out on the path of the pioneers, surreptitiously crossed the Dniester River to Romania and joined Constanza in a new “railway track” of pioneers waiting for Aliyah, where he was the living spirit in a choir conducted by Friedman-Lwow. When he arrived in Israel in April 1921, he immediately went to pioneering work in the paving of the Afula-Nazareth road and lovingly carried on the hardships of the hard labor in Israel. Lived a life of happiness and honor. Noah married a wife and raised a son and two daughters. Since his arrival in Israel, he has participated in defending the Yishuv whenever necessary. From 1930 on he was an official member of the Haganah and fulfilled his duty diligently and devotedly in training and guarding, first in Haifa and later in Kiryat Motzkin.” On April 15, 1948, he was informed of an explosive bomb that had been put in a train car into the yard of the mills, and everyone entered the shelter and went out to see what was happening outside and at that moment the explosion took place. Two days later he fell under the avalanche and his rifle in his hand was brought to rest in the Kiryat Motzkin cemetery.

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