Lindenberg, Shlomo

Son of Mali and Ze’ev, was born on August 16, 1930 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. In his hometown he joined the Bnei Akiva movement, which operated underground during the Nazi rule in Romania and managed the movement’s library. Although his surroundings and his family were steeped in a spirit of assimilation, Shlomo had a deep religious feeling and fulfilled the mitzvot as though he had been brought up for it from his childhood. In 1946, as part of the Youth Aliyah, he arrived at the shores of Israel on the illegal immigrant ship Knesset Israel, but was sent to Cyprus. From there he sent an article to a Romanian newspaper that shed light on the lives of the island’s inmates. Only a year later he came to Israel and began studying at the agricultural school in Mikvah Israel. Soon she became involved in the work and was among the organizers of the nucleus for the workers’ moshav Netzer Issachar. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, after the United Nations General Assembly decided on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states, he went out every night to guard the positions of Mikve Israel, opposite the enemy villages of Tel A-Rish and Yazur. With the nucleus of the settlement of Shavei Tzion in the north of the country and stayed in the Tarshiha stronghold opposite Kaukji’s soldiers, and wrote reassuring letters to his parents who had immigrated to Israel: “The war will be over soon. Everything will be fine. “- In combat training at the Gadna camp, on the 15th of Cheshvan 5709 (November 15, 1948), a bullet was accidentally fired. He remained behind a bush and was there without a breath. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak