Linber, Naomi (Sonia)

Daughter of Liesel and Julius Freilich, was born on May 28, 2626 in the city of Totligen, Germany, near the Swiss border. In her hometown she attended elementary school. In 1938, when she was 12 years old, she immigrated with her family to Eretz Israel. They settled in the cooperative moshav of Shavei Zion, which had just been established in the framework of the “Tower and Stockade”. Naomi was sent to study at the agricultural school in Ramat Rachel under the direction of Rachel Yanait son of-Zvi. When she returned to the moshav, she joined the auxiliary forces of the Haganah, like the rest of the youth. In the framework of a class of young women underwent weapons training and self-defense as well as signaling and communication. The young people of the moshav, including Naomi, helped the Haganah to bring illegal immigrants to the beach. One time Naomi was injured and her leg was broken. When she was seventeen she married and gave birth to a daughter of Rachel. During the first months of the War of Independence, Shavei Zion and the Western Galilee were completely cut off from the rest of the country. On the 26th of Adar II 5708 (1948), while guarding the moshav outpost, an exchange of fire broke out between residents of the Arab village of Samariya on the Acre-Nahariya road and residents of Shavei Zion. Naomi was hit by a bullet and killed. She was laid to rest in the cemetery of the Shavei Zion. She left a husband and daughter, parents, two brothers and a sister. In 1958, her husband received the “Haganah” in her name.