Ostrovsky, Avner

Son of Tzvia and Chaim. He was born in Tel Aviv on January 1, 1988. He completed six years of study at the “Netzach Yisrael” school and then moved to Yavne’el where he studied for half a day at the local school and in the second half worked in his aunt’s farm in the nearby moshav “Mishmar “After graduating from elementary school, he returned to his parents’ home, where he moved to Petach Tikvah and began studying at the Gymnasium in the moshavah, and after one year of study, he was forced to work to help the family, Aviv and in the evenings studied at the Max Payne vocational school in 1945. In 1945, during his last year of school, he joined the HaNoar Haoved youth movement He was one of the activists of the branch with the founders and organizers of the nucleus who planned to leave for training in Ashdot Yaakov, and joined the Haganah during his training in the Hagana, In September 1946, he left the kibbutz for training in Ashdot Ya’akov, and Avner remained at home, but remained in close contact with his fellow members of the Hachshara, and in April 1947 he joined his friends and immediately joined public service and was chosen to be a member of the Haganah. Member of the training secretariat. In the ranks of the Haganah, his commanders assigned him command and courses, but on the 30th of Tishrei 5708 (September 30, 1947) he perished in an accident while working in the kibbutz. He was laid to rest in the Petah Tikva cemetery. Lay mother, brother and sister. His mother established a house in Kfar Ganim in memory of his name, “Avner son of Haim House”. His friends in Kibbutz Yiftach wrote things in his memory in the booklet “Gravestones on the Road – in Memory of Friends”.