Netter, Shaul

Shaul, son of Aliza and Dr. Yitzhak (Eugene) Netter, was born in 1913 in Mannheim, Germany. He had Zionist recognition and aspired to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael, and for that purpose he even acquired the Hebrew language. In 1933, with the rise of Hitler to power in Germany, he went to agricultural training in preparation for his immigration to Palestine. He went to Sicily and worked there in citrus groves. He completed his agricultural training in Alsace, returned to Germany and continued his training with a number of members of the “Young Maccabee” movement on an agricultural farm near Berlin. In 1936 he immigrated to Israel with his wife and they joined as members of the Degania Aleph group. During World War II, he served in the British Army in the Artillery Battalion, moved to the Jewish Fighting Brigade at its founding, and was sent to guide the pioneers of “Kibbutz Buchenwald” before their immigration to Israel. At the time of the Syrian attack on Degania, on 9 Iyar, 18.5.1948, Shaul fell and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Degania Aleph. He left behind a wife and three children.