Ozer, Meir-Simcha

Son of Rachel and Rabbi Moshe Leib. He was born on March 12, 1923 in Kharkov, Russia. In 1926 he immigrated to Israel with his parents and the family settled in Petah Tikva. At first he attended a religious school in the village and later in a yeshiva in Haifa. After graduating he began to work as a needle in a tin-tin factory. During the Second World War, this factory was engaged in mines and there he acquired his expertise and expertise in preparing explosives. He was active in the ranks of Beitar and among all his friends and acquaintances, he was outstanding in his kindness and kindness, and his desire for sacrifice and sacrifice brought him to the ranks of the Irgun and took part in the first anti-British activities he initiated in early 1944, , Sabotage at airports, bridges and railroad tracks. In 1944, following a search in Petah Tikva, he was first arrested and imprisoned for a year in the Latrun detention camp. Upon his release he returned to underground activity until he was caught in Bat Yam sand dunes with another thirty members who returned together from sabotage operations in the south of the country. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, sent first to Jerusalem Prison and then transferred to Acre prison. In the operation of the Akko prison by the Etzel forces on May 4, 1947, Simcha took an active part and was one of the escapees who left the walls unharmed, and after his departure he prepared himself for a new identity. On the 17th of Elul 5707 (September 2, 1947), a large explosion took place in the workshop, located in the width of Basel, in Tel Aviv, where the people of the surrounding area found Simcha lying on the floor of the workshop. He was brought to eternal rest in the Petah Tikva cemetery, where his life and heroism are presented in “Memories Forever”, the memorial book for the fallen soldiers of the Irgun Zvai Leumi.