Nussband, Boaz

Son of Bluma and Benzion was born on May 29, 1911, in the town of Mezrich-Podljeski, Poland, where he became a talented student and continued his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium. And after the end of the Gymnasium he left for training and the main leadership of his movement delayed his immigration because of the need for his work in the leadership of the Galil Kielce and later in the center of the League for Labor Palestine. Teaching in Pruzhany, but he could not bear the anti-Zionist pressure choking, and when he received an invitation from the center of his movement through the underground On February 20, 1941, he immigrated to Israel via Russia and Turkey and joined Kibbutz Negba, where he worked in cartels and other branches of the kibbutz, and then he accepted the leadership’s request to go to the Kibbutzim College to study in the kibbutz. He was devoted to his job and to the children, diligent and humble in his work, and his oral and written comments on the questions of life in the kibbutz and in education aroused the thought of the inner truth in them: When the War of Independence broke out and the children were evacuated from the kibbutz he continued to take care of their spiritual needs and leisure hours As a medic he continued to prepare material for them Mod. “I am the last and only remnant of my entire family,” he would say to his friends at the time, and was eager to save the wounded remains of the battles. During an Egyptian attack on Negba he went out to give first aid to a wounded member of one of the positions, and on his return he was hit by a shell and fell on the 24th of Iyar 5708 (June 2, 1948). He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Negba. The kibbutz children said: “If we had one friend who loved us, all of us, then he fell, fell like a hero.” For his work during the first days of the war in his town in the Diaspora he wrote in the book “On the Beacons of Poland” (1940) signed by “Hever”.