Plaskowski, Meir

Son of Malka and Eliezer. He was born in 1906 in the town of Sophotzkin in Russia, later in Poland, and in his youth he stood out in his love for Zion and his longing to immigrate to Eretz Israel. And he immigrated to Israel in 1927. The couple settled in Hadera, where Meir established a workshop for men and women, and a few of them were members of the Hehaluts movement. He was able to support his family, who grew in the course of time. He and his three children moved to a small hut in the moshavah, where he moved to the Hagana organization in the Samaria area, and he also set up his own shop to manufacture firearms and repair old weapons. In the course of time Meir brought over his parents, brothers, and sisters to Israel and settled in Karkur and nearby Ein Iron, and in 1940 volunteered for the British army even though he had no obligations. This is because of his age and marital status. As an excellent professional in the mechanics industry, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force, served in the Air Force base in Halwan, Egypt, where he became fond of his commanders and friends, British as well as Jews. He continued to maintain strong ties with the Haganah, and when he came to leave, he also brought with him various types of weapons. After six years of service he returned to his colony and family in 1945. Meir volunteered for many different missions. He planned and carried out irrigation and pipe projects in Samaria and was one of the contractors of the “Water Company” (later Mekorot). He also repaired weapons, enlisted in public activity within the framework of the Veterans’ Organization and was elected secretary of the branch of this organization in Samaria. On the 3rd of Tishrei 5708 (17.9.1947), riding on his motorcycle with his son Reuven of on the way from Hadera to Pardes-Chana, they were both deliberately killed by a British armored vehicle that deliberately deviated from its course in response to the hanging of the British sergeants in Netanya. He left a wife, a boy and a girl.