Ordang, Tuvia

Son of Bryna and Shraga-Feibush was born on the 14th of Kislev 5790 (November 14, 1907) in the city of Libau, Latvia, to a longtime Zionist family, After the first world war, the first Hebrew Gymnasium was opened in Riga, and Tuvia was among its first students, and when he completed his matriculation exams he was one of the first members of the training farm in Latvia, in the village of Stoki. Was Zeev Jabotinsky, and in his influence Tuvia emigrated in 1925 to acquire agricultural education At the University of Toulouse in southern France. Among the students and the Jewish community in Toulouse was one of the activists on Zionism, the Jewish National Fund, the Haganah, etc. After he wrote a thesis on “citrus growing in the Land of Israel” in the final exams, he was awarded the title of Agricultural Engineer and in 1929 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Hadera, where his parents lived, and since he was an expert in orchards he received orchards in the moshava. He immigrated to Israel and was active in the local Haganah. In 1936 he moved to Jerusalem after he married a wife and was appointed as an agricultural instructor in the Agricultural Mortgage Company of Israel, and despite his work in a semi-governmental company he continued his activities in the Haganah as Azaria. With the outbreak of the War of Independence in Kislev 5708. He continued to work in the office, where he met with Arabs and English and obtained important information for the Hagana’s Intelligence Service. Shortly before the declaration of the state, the work ceased in his office and Tuvia was drafted into the army and participated in the conquest of Katamon. On the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), on his way to one of the houses between Baka and Mekor Hayyim, he boarded a mine and was killed along with two of his friends. He was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem