Michael, Nathan

Son of Rivka and Eli, was born on November 25, 1926, in the small town of Balspic, the region of Pulticheny, Romania, to a poor family and a commission. Immediately after finishing elementary school, he took up the burden of living and worked as a tailor. When he was 14 years old, he joined the pioneering movement “Dror Habonim” and left for training. In 1945, at the end of the war, he arrived in Italy and was accepted to the “youth village”. Where he learned a little Hebrew and was one of the founders of the “Dror circles” from which the “Alonim” group was later formed. He immigrated to Israel with his group. He was interned in Cyprus and arrived in Israel in May 1947. Together with his friends, he joined Kibbutz Beit Hashita and was very attached to kibbutz life. Nathan was politically and class-conscious and was Simcha to unite his party Poalei Zion with the Hashomer Hatzair party on November 21, 1947, and was sent to represent the Alonim group at the national gathering of Mapam immigrants. He was a member of Kibbutz Beit Hashita, where he intended to build his future, and he wanted to bring his parents to Israel and bring them to the kibbutz. He was serious and logical, and he was considered one of the best ping pong players on the kibbutz. In June 1948 he joined the Navy and served in the Landing Company, and on July 17-18, 1948, Operation “Death to the Intruder” was carried out, in an attempt to break through the road to the Negev. The landing unit of the Givati ​​Brigade was attacked and the attack on the village of Beit ‘Afa on the north, together with the Givati ​​company that attacked from the south, broke out in the north, but the attack from the south failed. Was forced to withdraw, and on that day he fell on the 18th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948) on the 9th of Tishrei 5710 (October 9, 1949), was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.