Sein, Israel (Irwin)

Son of Esther and Lewis, the son of Rabbi Mordechai Sabin (Zevin), who was the rabbi of the Lubavitch Hasidic community in Chicago for many years, was born on October 17, 2121 in Chicago, Illinois. From age 12 onwards he was active as a member and later as a guide in the Habonim movement. He graduated from elementary and high school. In 1943, he completed his studies at the “Herzl” seminary. In 1943 he was drafted into the United States Army and served as a radar equipment installation, and for more than two years he was on the European front. After his release, he spent eight months at the Habonim pioneering training farm in the Crimea Ridge, where he met a wife and married a wife. In September 1947 they both arrived in Israel and set up their home in the Maayan Baruch group. Israel was interested in the fine arts and humanistic sciences and its members in training, and even the few in the group who knew him well remembered his sincerity, his love of man, his kindness, his consideration of others and his constant quest for human happiness and a Yaffa life. The life that had taken place around him did not satisfy his ambitions properly and he suffered in silence; His criticism was always silent, careful and witty as one, with thin, delicate humor surrounding her. Shortly before his arrival, the War of Independence broke out and since he worked as a driver outside the kibbutz, he was recruited to transport arms and ammunition to our defensive forces. On this day, on 9 June 1948, he was brought to rest at the cemetery in Tel Hai, where he left a pregnant wife and his daughter, who was born five months after his death, was named after him: Israela. In the book “On Death” that the group Maayan Baruch issued in memory of her fallen.