Mirtenbaum, Yehuda (Leon)

He was born in 1895 in Krakow, Poland, to a well-to-do family in the fur trade. When he was admitted to the university, he was only 17 years old. He was one of the initiators and organizers of a group of students who organized to immigrate to Palestine. In 1912 Judah succeeded in fulfilling his dream and immigrating to the land of his forefathers. His friends who came with him disappointed him. Some of them went abroad and the rest dispersed in all parts of the country The connection between the members of the group was severed, Yehuda clung to his claws in Eretz Israel and worked in the moshavot of the Lower Galilee and the Sea of ​​Galilee, Hashomer took Yehuda with him to guard the settlement of Rehovot, and although he was a rookie, he looked and behaved like a veteran and experienced guard, he took care of his body and his clothes, he accepted the difficulties in good spirits and joked with his friends. His friends in the Lower Galilee, he remained in the Galilee settlements and worked in Tel Adashim, and in 1915, together with Yisrael Giladi, settled in the Upper Galilee On August 12, 1917, when it became clear to Yehuda that the Hashomer assembly in Tel Adash had postponed his acceptance into the ranks of the organization, he committed suicide. Was buried in the cemetery in Merhavia and then brought to burial in the “Hashomer” section of the cemetery in Kfar Giladi and left a daughter who lives in the United States,