Salpeter, Miriam (Minka)

Daughter of Tzipora and Mordechai, was born in 1902 in the city of Ternopol, Poland, and studied in a commercial school. Miriam was a member of the He – Chaluts movement and was active in educating Hebrew youth in her city. Later she joined the Gordonia movement and engaged in educational activities. When she felt that school was interfering with her Zionist-educational activity, she left school. When they arrived in Poland, the riots of 1929 did not rest until she immigrated to Eretz Israel, among the first members of the “Gordonia” Aleph, on the 15th of Tishrei, 1929. When she arrived in Israel, she immediately joined the Hulda group, where she worked in agriculture, Miriam was appointed to the headquarters of Hulda, when a wife who trained and commanded a group of defenders was not the first to serve as a guide in the Haganah, Because of a disaster, she decided to get out of the combat service, learned to wear wounds on her hands, devoted herself to providing first aid, and During the fierce battles for the breakthrough to Jerusalem, she helped many wounded, including those wounded in the village of Uriah and the wounded soldiers of the brigade that fought in the area. During the bombardment of a rat by the Egyptians, she rushed to help wounded soldiers and fell on guard duty on the day of 16 May 1948. She was brought to rest in the cemetery in Hulda