Lifshitz, Miriam

Daughter of Bracha and Aharon. She was born in 1915 in Vitebsk, Russia, and in 1921 immigrated to Eretz Israel with her parents. She studied at the girls’ school in Tel Aviv and belonged to the Scouts movement. She joined the Haganah underground with her friends. Her two brothers owned farms in Ramat Hasharon and Miriam worked in their farms. On August 20, 1938, she traveled with her friend and several young people, residents of Tel Aviv and members of “South Judea”, to a soccer competition in Rehovot, passing through the Abu Kabir neighborhood on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border Miriam was injured and transferred to Hadassah Hospital for two weeks, Miriam struggled for her life and her condition improved, but on 7 September 1938 she died. And she was only twenty-three years old. Miriam was buried in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, in the Haganah and Haapala sections. Survived by her parents and two brothers. In the newspapers Davar, Haaretz, and in the morning, lists were published in her memory.