Midavri, Naomi

Daughter of Miriam and Shlomo, was born on 7.11.1927 in Kibbutz Tel Yosef. When she was seven years old, her parents left the kibbutz, but due to her longing for the kibbutz they returned a year ago. Naomi attended the joint school in Ein Harod and Tel Yosef and the older she got, the more she wanted to learn and to know. When she was in 10th grade, the kibbutz decided that the boys and girls would work a full day’s work, and according to her mother’s testimony, it saddened Naomi because she knew she had not learned enough. Her consolation came from work; In the children’s home she felt that this was her destiny, and that was what the children, the parents and the educators felt. Naomi was sent to Kibbutzim College in Yagur; Here, too, she did well in her studies and absorbed all that was possible: art and painting, dance and aesthetics, and above all, understanding and love for the child. Despite her young age, she thought: “If I admire a Yaffa desert, if I live the good and the pure and give it to the children, they will certainly love it like me.” “The child must be allowed unrestricted freedom in his life and his childhood games, and he must be given the tools to be in his own mind, fit his character and satisfy his passionate and creative impulses.” Nothing should be forced upon him or transferred to him. The child in order to create his soul and shape his character, and thus he will grow up and become a useful and creative man. ” Naomi knew that the veteran educators at Tel Yosef would object to her approach to education but decided that this would be her way of educating the younger generation. Like all kibbutzim who suffered from a shortage of workers in general and educators in particular, Naomi was recruited as part of the territorial defense and did not enlist in the army. On the first day of Elul 5708 (September 5, 1948), while she was driving to visit her friend Efraim, the car went up on a landmine and was mortally wounded and died a few hours later at the hospital in Afula, Naomi was brought to rest in the cemetery at Tel Yosef. Parents and younger brother, whose special character was immortalized in the book “Their Imagination” published by Tel Yosef, 1950.