Lieberman, Avraham-Yitzhak

Son of Hava and Benjamin, was born in 1912 in the city of Hummel, Russia, and studied in his childhood as a “cheder”. When he was young, he immigrated with his parents to Israel and immediately found his place in the ranks of the Haganah. In times of trouble, the community would have moved to any place called to it. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the British Air Force and served for six and a half years. He studied mechanics and rose to the rank of corporal. While in the army, he wrote a diary and poems, in which he described the life of the soldier, the longing for the homeland and his family in a foreign country. Upon his discharge from the army, he began to work as a driver in an office for transporting freight in Petah Tikva. Excelled in devotion and responsibility for work and did not hesitate to go to places of danger, although he was already a husband and wife of three daughters. He often came with his car to isolated and dangerous places. On Rosh Chodesh Teves, December 14, 1947, a caravan of seven cars, consisting of 48 reinforcements from son of Shemen, set out from Petach Tikvah, surprising the convoy, not through the usual route, but through Migdal Tzedek and Beit Nabala. A number of places and mishaps that occurred to the vehicles arrived at the army camps in Beit-Nabala, which was heavily bombed by a unit of the Arab Legion that was in the area and was brought to rest in the Petah Tikva cemetery.