Saar, Abraham

Was born in Russia in 1917. During his studies in the Gymnasium, he absorbed classical culture, and he immigrated to Israel in 1917 at the end of World War I. He joined the pioneers in Mahanayim and later in Kfar Giladi and Abed Kalfach, He had a cheerful disposition and the spirit of the group, several times injured in clashes with Bedouins and disdainful of his own adventures and heroism, and took part in the battles for the defense of Tel Hai, where he left for Paris, And then worked for several years as an engineer in France, after which he was involved in the importation of fruit and received great respect for his honesty in trade and his other qualities “When the Second World War broke out, he decided to organize a Jewish brigade to fight the Nazi enemy, along with an old member of Hashomer and from the days of Kfar Giladi, who had come to Paris, but the French and British army refused. When the Germans entered Paris he managed to leave, passing through Spain and Portugal to Mozambique and returning to Israel in January 1941. He settled with his wife in Jerusalem and engaged in trade in fruits and agricultural produce, and as a member of the Haganah purchased arms from the Arabs and hid them in the orchards in the Judean Lowlands. At the beginning of the War of Independence, Arab residents of the neighborhood of Romema approached him to organize a joint Jewish-Arab defense to maintain peace in the neighborhood, but because of the intervention of other forces, this did not happen. He then worked to protect convoys from the coastal plain to Jerusalem. He was seriously injured in an attack on one of the convoys (in which Hans Byte, head of Youth Aliyah was also killed) and due to the British delay in transporting the wounded, died of his wounds on December 26, 1947. He was buried on the Mount of Olives. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.