Lifshitz, Lipman Yom Tov

Son of Avraham. He was born in Latvia in 1913 and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1932. Upon his arrival he was accepted as a student at the Technion and worked as a construction worker and in the refineries. He was a member of the Histadrut, in the metalworkers’ union. For a certain period he served as a guard in Zichron Ya’akov. When the Second World War broke out, the British authorities tried to buy the hearts of the Arabs and published a “white book” forbidding land purchases by Jews in large parts of the Land of Israel. Massive and mass demonstrations took place in all the settlements in Israel. One of them took place in Haifa despite the curfew imposed by the British on the city. During the demonstration, British police shot and beat the crowd of demonstrators. Lipman was seriously wounded and on the 5th of Adar TS (March 5, 1940) died of his wounds. He was buried in the Haifa cemetery. His friends planted in his memory 24 trees in the Herzl Forest. His name is commemorated in a memorial booklet issued by the “ransom of the Yishuv” and “The Diary of the Events”