Livni, Reuven
Son of Yosef and Olga. He was born on May 16, 1934 in the city of Brod in Yugoslavia. Where he managed to finish his first grade in elementary school before Yugoslavia was conquered by the Germans and then began his wanderings. Reuven’s father, who was an accountant and merchant, served as the secretary of the Zionist Association in his place of residence and was taken among the first to a concentration camp where most of the Jews of Yugoslavia died. His mother, an activist in WIZO, escaped with her son to the Italian occupation zone, where they were put in a concentration camp, and two years later they were liberated by the Yugoslav partisans and wandered with them in the forests of Bosnia until they were captured by the Croatian Ustasa. In 1947, ReuSon of’s uncle traveled to Yugoslavia and brought ReuSon of to Eretz Israel, where he reached the Sha’ar Ha’amakim and joined the “Youth Aliyah” company – “Erez.” Reuven soon became absorbed in the company, the kibbutz and the atmosphere of the country. He was drafted into the IDF. Afterward, he would go to reserve service too, and would be called during the Six-Day War. Reuven was one of the best and oldest in his company and served as a gunner in one of the first tanks that burst into the Syrian plateau. He fought against four cannons facing him at a well-dug post, and during his shooting his tank was hit by a direct hit turret. It was on the fifth day of the battles, on the 9th of Sivan 5727 (9 June 1967.) He left a wife and three children, was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and later moved to the eternal resting place at Sha’ar Ha’amakim cemetery. Sha’ar Ha’amakim published a pamphlet in his memory (in a booklet with several pamphlets in memory of friends) Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim published a pamphlet in his memory and the memory of four of his fallen sons. In a booklet issued by the brigade where he served his name was commemorated, and from his estate is presented in the collection of the estates of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars – Willy Fire “, Vol.
