Novick, Herzl

Son of Israel. Born in 1904 in the town of Wolpe, Poland, to a well-to-do Jewish family, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1926. He lived in Petach Tikva where he worked in various jobs, and then moved to Kfar Saba where he worked in a citrus grove. After being summoned to the police station, he was arrested along with the rest of the participants in the strike and imprisoned for a few days because of the severe economic crisis that had taken place in the country in which many of his friends were abroad, but he stuck to it and remained. He always aspired to live in the village, joined the moshav, married, and in 1935 his son was born. He moved to the Shomron area and was accepted as a foreman in the “March” orchards, and joined the Moshav Ein Iron near Karkur, where he was known among his friends and acquaintances as honest and devoted. In April 1938, Arabs attacked the workers of one of the orchards, killing one guard and injuring two. On 12 Av, August 9, 1938, Herzl accompanied other workers to work in the orchard. The car in which they were driving went on a mine at the entrance to the orchard and Herzl was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the Hadera cemetery. He left a wife and a son.