Meiri (Czernochka), Reuven
Son of Hanna-Gitel nee Gotentag (Tebiumi), and Yehiel Meir, was born on October 9, 2121 in the city of Ripin, Poland to an affluent family of veteran Gur Hasidim. He studied Polish literature and studied Hebrew and Jewish history, and when he was 15-16 years old, he was active and influential in Young Agudath Israel, helped with the organization of the ” The girls of Agudath Israel, and the establishment of the Beit Ya’akov School for Girls, and his aspiration was to immigrate to Eretz Israel.In the efforts of his two uncles and relatives, residents of the country received an immigration permit as a student of the “Tachkemoni” He barely got his parents’ consent and promised to send money to support him, and in the winter of 1938 he immigrated to Israel and began studying. Because of their precarious situation, his parents could not keep their promise, and he stopped his studies and tried to get along with his work, but aspired to study at Mikveh Yisrael. Reuven retired from Poalei Agudat Israel, tried to be accepted to the Nutras and sought ways to join a pioneering religious endeavor. When his parents heard about his condition and his doubts and invited him to go abroad, he told them that there was no point in going back to that paradise, where Jews were being beaten and persecuted. My advice is that you begin to liquidate your business and gradually transfer the family to our country, as long as this is possible. “Reuven was admitted to the Avraham group in Kfar Pines, albeit hesitantly, because of his young and spoiled appearance and shyness, but quickly absorbed himself in social life and work, and participated in the group’s work battalions in Kfar Haroeh, Givat Ada, And a building group in Tirat Zvi, known among the farmers in the area as one of the best workers. In his group he served as treasurer, book manager, etc. He became an active member of Hashomer Hatzairah. He trained in the Hagana and in the summer of 1941 he joined one of the Palmach’s first nuclei, and after a year went there to be trained in the Palmach’s religious department, and he influenced the boys and girls in “Youth Aliyah” He was the active spirit in training, working and traveling, and in public prayer and regular Torah lessons. Especially in the Zmirot Shabbat, Hassidic dances and as a public emissary in the High Holy Days. When he was discharged from the Palmach in early 5705, he devoted himself to plowing and preparing land and planting trees and flowers on the grounds of the Sanctuary in Kfar Etzion. He worked in the DP camps in Austria and Germany in the DP camps in Austria and Germany, and he devoted much of his energy and energy to the survivors of the Holocaust, carrying with them all their suffering as one of them, and the Mizrachi and Torah Va’avoda Centers in Munich, In the winter of 1948, at the outbreak of the War of Independence, when the Kfar Etzion group summoned all its members to protect it Reuven was one of the three emissaries whom the group saw as necessary to keep them in their work in the Diaspora, but he did not comply with the demands of the movement’s center and returned to Eretz Israel in 1948. During the intermediate days of Passover he arrived at Kfar Etzion and worked as a veteran On May 13, 1948, when Arab Legionnaires broke into the village, he succeeded in escaping with some of his friends from position no. 3 in the eastern section to the “Song of Songs” grove, where he was captured by the enemy. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was brought to rest with the rest of the victims of the GushAnd to the water at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.