Novick, Shulamit (Shula)

Daughter of Malka and Natan, was born on 19 September 1927 in Tel Aviv. From childhood she had known poverty and suffering. She grew up and became a cheerful and good-hearted girl, who knows in her moments of indignation to encourage and say, “It will be good.” She completed her studies in a high school and joined the Palmach in 1944. She spent her first year of service in Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, then in Kibbutz Yagur and other places. During the British army search, she was released from the Palmach and returned to Tel Aviv, where she worked as a clerk in the “Asirinu” institution, and was very attached to her mother and tried to improve her life conditions. Accompanied by caravans to Jerusalem, and later moved to the office of the Palmach headquarters. Shulamit fell on the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948) in an attack when an Egyptian air raid on Rishon Lezion. She was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.