Phillips, Saadia (Stanley)

Son of Albert and Esther. He was born on April 28, 1934 in the United States and attended a Jewish school in Brooklyn, New York. At that time he was a member of the Scout movement and at the age of 15 he joined the North American Hashomer Hatzair movement and was the center of the fortress in Brooklyn. He graduated from New Utrecht High School, also in Brooklyn, continued to study at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn College) and completed his B.A. Because of his mission, he also studied at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of Toronto. Saadia was sent to coordinate the Hashomer Hatzair branch in Montreal. He was a member of the main leadership of Hashomer Hatzair and also treasurer of the movement. When he arrived, he served in the US Army and after completing his service he immigrated to Israel in 1958 and settled in Kibbutz Gal-On. Saadia identified with the idea of ​​the kibbutz as a way of life and as a way to realize socialism for Jewish youth. His body was strong and strong and gave him a gentle and modest soul. His delicacy would testify, for example, to the fact that in the last few days of his hospitalization, when he was on his deathbed, he had worried that he was disturbing his caregivers; Lest he disturb the sleep of his neighbors. He has always been lively and Lev, loves to spend time in conversation and arguing, trying to solve the problems of the kibbutz and always thinking about a far future. His arguments were sharp, logical, and profoundly analytical. He did not believe in convention. He sought ways to promote the kibbutz and the movement and was active both in the agriculture and in the ideological-political field. He was convinced of his righteousness in all his arguments, but learned to be flexible, to listen and to understand others. In his kibbutz he coordinated the orchard, the manpower committee, the education committee, and was a labor organizer. Saadia was drafted into the IDF in June 1965, and after his discharge he was called for periods of reserve duty, by nature and faith, pacifist and peace-loving, he believed in the brotherhood of nations and saw military service as a necessity and necessity. In 1968, he began working in the Inter-kibbutz Unit for Economic Planning, where he worked on the feasibility studies of various industries in different economies (such as water problems, the aquaculture sector, agricultural planning for a young farm). (22.11.1970) as a result of an accident that occurred during reserve service, after he had been lying on the bed for a week Joy at the hospital. Put his wife and three children. He was buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Galon. Thirty “passing Kibbutz Galon issued in light of the newsletter” pages of the Week “devoted to Sa’adia.