Rainer, Aryeh

Son of Moshe. He was born in Cracow, Poland in 1913. In his childhood, he received religious education, studied in the “Heder” and later in the elementary school, later joined the Akiva Zionist youth movement and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935 together with a group of members of his kibbutz of Kibbutz Be’er Yaakov who worked as a working group in Petach Tikvah for the purpose of conquering Hebrew work in the village, and joined the ranks of the Haganah and was active in guarding and defending Arab gangs. Yaakov, at his friends’ testimony, was “happy and kindhearted, cheerful and joking.” In 1936 he married a wife and a year later they had a son and the family was about to inaugurate their newly built home. On 25 Elul, 21 September 1938, while Aryeh was guarding a group of friends who worked in the orchard, an Arab gang attacked them from the ambush and Aryeh was wounded by mortal wounds. He was laid to rest in Be’er Ya’akov. Were written in the section “In memory of the missing” in “Davar” newspaper.