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Numis, Haim (Charlie)

Numis, Haim (Charlie)


The only son of Fruma and Moshe Abraham was born on March 20, 1920, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, until the age of 10. He studied at a kindergarten and at the Montessori School, which was founded in Berlin by his mother. When he was 11, he joined the Jewish Scout Organization and discovered that there was a Jewish national problem, and with his group he joined Hashomer Hatza’ir and at the age of 15 he accepted the guidance of a group. In 1938 he managed to escape from Germany to England with a student license, but in England he did not continue his studies, but chose a pioneering path and worked in London as a carpenter. After a day’s work, he went to the East London neighborhoods, standing on the stage with a furry shirt and a shirt in protest against the accepted concepts in England and arousing Jewish youth to Zionism and socialism. He was able to establish ties with English-born youth and to bring English boys into the movement’s groups despite the differences in language, social and cultural background, and most of his students came to Israel over the years, enemy. After his release, he founded the “Kennan” in London and worked for a long time in the leadership. Participate in every plant, summer colony, seminar, etc. He was considered to be the guide in the news, participated in every thorough investigation and published many publications, work plans, material for conversations and holidays, a scouting newspaper and more. His abundance of ideas stimulated the life of the movement. He was an in-depth expert and analyzed every problem that arose in the chisel. He was close to politics, literature and art, wrote poems and left behind a rich literary legacy. He was naturally a warrior and a rebel. To new values ​​continued with revolutionary fervor. He believed in man and his future, was always ready to help others and created a warm social atmosphere around him. Modest and humble, but he did not refrain from the joy of life. At the beginning of 1947, when immigration began from England, he immigrated to Israel with his wife Tova Ba’aliyah Bet, although he knew he would be sent to Cyprus. The movement in England gave him a heavy Lev. In “The Enemies,” his character remained a model of devotion and activity. An entire tradition was associated with his name. In a clash with the British on the ship Theodor Herzl, he was lightly wounded, but the next day, when he arrived in Cyprus, he began organizing the camp youth. Haim was released after nine months of detention and at the beginning of 1948 came to Israel and joined Kibbutz HaOgen (Kfar Saba). A few months after his immigration, he joined the army and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. The officer said, “I trust you – you will learn everything and you will come out more perfect than many others.” He was indeed one of the best students in the course, and his educational personality stood out, his subordinates trusted him with devotion “When he left for the southern front on October 29, 1948, he wrote to his wife:” My life is no more precious than the life of another mortal. Anything that I have done in the past and would do in the future can surely be done equally well by another person. With my death nothing has been lost… But my Lev is heavy on me – for you. After all, what is it for you and my victory in a war that I will not live to tell you? The sadness is very palpable – a sadness of the hours of happiness that are still waiting for us and I will not win them, saddened that I will not see my children. “During Operation Horev, a” liquidation “operation was carried out against the” Faluja pocket “in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. Was held on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-ManshiyyaAlexandroni broke into the village to the south and took control of its part, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered and attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the night of the 26th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was ordered to secure a wing by blocking a street, and crawled at the head of his squad in the sticky mud. The squad destroyed the guard with hand grenades and took first positions. But the Egyptian force was preferable, and when he had no more than five bullets in his rifle, a withdrawal order was issued. Haifa lives on the retreating company B, hit by a bullet and died. He was buried in Faluja. He left behind a wife, a favor, and a child. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Netanya.

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