Orieli, Aryeh

Son of Sonia and David, was born on the way from Herzliya to Tel Aviv, where he spent his childhood in the Herzlia settlement, where he studied in the elementary school, studied at Mishmar Hasharon and finished eighth grade at the Carmel School, In Tel Aviv, after graduating from the elementary school in Tel Aviv, he stopped his studies for a year and studied at a mechanical workshop, and then prepared for the summer exam and entered the sixth grade of a high school. He was a member of the Haganah from his youth, enlisted in the Palmach and served in various positions during the struggle against British rule. In his civilian life he was a mechanic and a drilling worker. “Aryeh HaGibor” or “Abba” was called his friends in the nucleus because of his spiritual maturity and great physical strength. Despite a broken leg he volunteered for service from the beginning of the War of Independence. He gave up the seamanship and went to the army, and later to the Palmach. He took part in the battles of Tel Litvinsky and fought in the Palmach, the nucleus of Giv’at Chaim, and was very Simcha with his natural enthusiasm, and on April 28, 1948, Arieh fell in a road accident in a military vehicle, Where many soldiers, cheerful and joyful, went to Tel Aviv to take a breather after the fighting, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Herzliya, and in one of his last letters he expressed his opinion that we would win, but it was better to die than to be vanquished.