Nado, Nissim

Son of Sultana and Mordechai. He was born on 20.5.1927 in Haskovo, Bulgaria, the only son of his wealthy parents. The national Zionist education he received at Betar, in which he was also a guide, inspired him to immigrate to Israel and fulfill the ideals he had absorbed in the youth movement, and his parents urged him to continue his studies after graduating with honors from the French college. The same immigration office of the Jewish Agency to Kibbutz Mesilot and then to Mizra, but he did not like life on the kibbutz, and in the middle of 1945 he moved to Haifa, moving from one place of work to another and eventually specializing in the block industry and working in that industry. Join at the same time, and learn Hebrew. Nissim was a tall, broad-shouldered man, yet kind and gentle. On April 2, 1946, he participated in the sabotage operation of his organization on the railroad tracks in southern Israel. The next day he was captured on the beach in Bat Yam with 30 other fighters. For about two weeks, the fighters were held in the Latrun detention camp, then transferred to Jerusalem and from there to Acre. In prison Nissim continued to study and to play sports that he had enjoyed in previous years. On the day of the Acre prison break (May 4, 1947), Nissim managed to be released with his friends but was hit in the stomach by the British bullet and later was captured in a car that was stopped due to a severe damage to the engine. He was transferred to Acre, where he was detained for six hours without receiving any medical treatment, and then transferred to the hospital in Haifa. Where he was operated on but the doctors failed to save his life and he died of his wounds on the 16th of Iyar 5707 (May 6, 1947). He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Haifa. His name was immortalized in “Memories of Netzach,” the memorial book for fallen soldiers of the Irgun Zvai Leumi.