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Peeguvi, Aryeh

Peeguvi, Aryeh


Son of Rosa and Julius was born on December 1, 1920, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, and at the end of his life he was educated by all his powers and efforts to educate him. His mother allowed him to start high school, but in 1933, when the Nazis came to power, he was forced to stop his studies, and in 1936 he immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of Youth Aliyah, where he studied at the Kibbutz Einot, Ramat David. In 1938 he left the group and settled in Ra’anana, where the Second World War broke out, He was drafted into the British army and spent five years on the Mediterranean and Western Desert, and later moved to the Jewish Brigade, where he returned to Ra’anana and returned to Israel in 1947. In 1947 he immigrated to Israel with his elderly mother, who survived all the hardships of the Holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands. And with the decision of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states and the outbreak of the War of Independence in its wake, he joined the campaign and served in the Alexandroni Brigade. Arieh fell on the 22nd of Adar 5708 (March 3, 1948), when he was on duty. It was a night of intense attack on Magdiel. The attack was repulsed but he did not return. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Ra’anana.

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