Nurl, Aryeh (Liuba)

He was born in 1917 in Bandar Tegina, Bessarabia, where he was orphaned from his father and forced to work and help support the family. He stood out in his dedication to the movement and in 1935 went on to train in the Milashti Battalion. In the hachshara, as in the nest, he was known for his comfortable and quiet character, and everyone loved him for this virtue, his honesty and his modesty. At the beginning of the “al-Pi” immigration movement, he tried to immigrate to Eretz Israel, but was unable to do so because he was detained and imprisoned in Czernowitz by the Romanian police. After further trials and hardships, he finally arrived in Palestine in 1939 aboard the illegal immigrant ship Katina. When he arrived, he immediately joined Betar’s enlistment unit in Hadera and joined the ranks of the Irgun. Here, too, he stood out for his modesty and peace of mind, but was the first to fill every position and carry out any action. The split in the Irgun in the summer of 1940 made him angry and he asked to take leave from the company. He moved to Hadera and began to work as an agricultural laborer in the moshavah. He joined the British army and volunteered for a commando unit. On 16 Adar, March 15, 1941, when he retreated after a successful sabotage operation on the home front of the enemy, he was struck by the enemy’s shells and fell. He was buried in Karna, Eritrea, and his life and heroism are commemorated in “The Memory of the Heroes of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization). His burial place is unknown.