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Sembel, Feivel

Sembel, Feivel


Son of Elka and Israel, was born in 1911 in the city of Zloczow in eastern Galicia (then in Austria and then in Poland). He attended a high school and was a member of the He – Chaluts movement. In 1939, he boarded the ship and became sick with arthritis, which later became a chronic Lev disease. Nevertheless, he worked in the building as a healthy person and lived with his wife in Daughter of Galim in Haifa. He lived simply and was cheerful. He loved life, the country and health, and even joined the Haganah. At the beginning of the War of Independence he stood guard at the entrance barrier to the Daughter of Galim neighborhood and checked the foreign cars that had come to the neighborhood. Later he served in the IDF in Shakam and reached the rank of sergeant. On the tenth of Tevet 5709 (11.1.1949), when he returned home from work, he died of a Lev stroke and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.

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