Salem, Muhammad Hassan

Son of Esseh and Hassan, was born in 1905 in a village in the Hula Valley. Muhammad was a landowner and owner of a herd of cows and buffaloes, as well as four horses who often ride them and even go out with them to competitions and races. Muhammad married Bandar Kassem and gave birth to four sons and two daughters. In 1941, Muhammad began working as a guard at Kibbutz Sde Nehemia, and at the same time worked as an informer for the Haganah. Its operators were Ze’ev Berger of Kibbutz Sde Nehemia (Huliot) and Binyamin Shapira of Kibbutz Amir. Muhammad did much for the small Jewish community: he not only delivered information but also took an active role in the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine from the northern border. On October 24, 1948, Muhammad and two of his sons went to the Wadi in the area of ​​Kibbutz Gonen to meet with informants and receive information from them. His sons returned without him and said that on their way they encountered a Syrian force that killed their father and dragged his body toward the Syrian border. Later his family learned that the body of their father was buried in the village of Arafa, which is located above Kibbutz Gonen, but his burial place is still unknown. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown