Pasternak, Meir

Meir was born on March 5, 1922, in the large village of Mesif, in the province of Marmarosh, Romania, Transylvania. During the Second World War, he was taken to the death camps with his family and the rest of the local Jews, from where he was transferred to labor camps in Germany. He joined the Ha – Po’el ha – Mizrachi Zionist pioneering training group in 1946. In 1946 he immigrated to Israel on the illegal immigrant ship Haganah and worked in the farm in Nahalat Yitzhak. When the War of Independence began, he enlisted out of recognition and a desire to take revenge on the enemies of Israel and served in the Carmeli Brigade. Meir was injured in the battles in Jenin, healed and returned to his battalion. When his sisters arrived in Israel he received a short vacation on the eve of the Sabbath, for a few hours, and although they tried to delay him for Shabbat and even locked his door so that he could not leave, he forced them to let him leave. Meir was hit by a sniper shot and fell in the Mishmar Hayarden area on July 13, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.