Rabinowitz, Tuvia

Son of Chaya-Tzipa and Yechezkel. He was born in 1895 in the city of Augustov, Poland, where he studied in a “cheder” and then continued his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Vilna. In 1920, at the beginning of the “Third Aliyah”, he immigrated to Eretz Israel with the first group from Augustow. At the beginning of his career in Israel he worked in Merhavia and shortly afterwards moved with his friends to the streets and worked there in the orchards. In the orchards of Rehovot he joined a group of workers who had organized to work in public works. From there he moved to work in the Public Works Ministry (now Solel Boneh) in a group called Tu, he worked on the roads and was paved with the Afula road, the Sarafand road and internal roads in Borochov and Ramat Gan. When he moved to the city, Tuvia began to work as an agricultural laborer, and it soon became clear to him that it was difficult for him to work in the distribution of Davar, and he founded Kfar Haim. After wandering in the country for fifteen years he finally moved to settle in Moshav Tzofit in the Sharon, planted a seven-dunam orchard and built a cowshed and worked outside the farm. He was optimistic and hopeful. On 25 Av, 13.8.1936, on the way to the orchards in the moshav, between Zofit and Kfar Sava, he was ambushed, wounded, and died shortly after of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the Tzofit cemetery. Left a pregnant wife and a son. His memoirs were published in the book “The 1936 Riots”, in a booklet commemorating the victims of Kfar Saba and its surroundings, and in the book “The Community of Augustov”.