Rusi, Nathan (Gualtiero)

Son of Emilia and Gad (Guido) was born on January 13, 1927 in the city of Milan, Italy, where he studied in a high school in Padua, and in 1943 he moved with his family to Rome, He joined the hachshara in the vicinity of Rome and in March 1945 he immigrated to Israel from the port of Be’eri and was accepted to the agricultural school in Mikvah Israel, where he joined Deganya Aleph, Giv’at Brenner and Ramat Yohanan for some time. He worked in the kibbutz and participated in his defense, and when the group was asked to give ten conscripts to the army, he volunteered, served in the Negev Brigade, and went out to work.Natan fell in battle on Julikat on the 11th of Tammuz (July 18, 1948.) After his body was found buried in Ruhama, two years later, on the 26th of Tammuz 5766 (26.6.1950), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg