Shachor, Miriam (The Partisan)

Daughter of Leah and Ephraim, was born on December 18, 1928 in Jerusalem, the fourth generation in the country, and her parents immigrated to Israel more than a century ago and were among the guardians of the walls of Tiberias, Safed and Jerusalem, And “in Tel Aviv, encouraged his daughter to embark on a pioneering path. She was educated in the son of Shemen Youth Village, joined the Hanoar Haoved movement and later went to Kibbutz Ein Harod, Beit Ha’arava and Na’an. Courageous, honest-character, cheerful – “wing of Renanim” they called her. Miriam found great interest in the life of the kibbutz and expressed her opinion about social life. There was no agricultural industry that did not specialize in it. She worked and worked in the vegetable garden and nursery, in the cowshed, in the barn and in the chicken coop. She nursed the babies and was a tractor. At any time she found the tractor and drove it, and so she learned to plow as one of the boys. Even before she turned 18, she went out with her friends to search for a group that had trained around Jericho and the Dead Sea, and its tracks were lost, and Miriam was the first to discover the errant in her path. “I read and reread the pages of Hannah Szenes’ book,” Miriam wrote in one of her letters. “I will place the book under my head, under my pillow. “Miriam took special courses for scouts and scouts, and when she was in the Negev, where she always dreamed and wanted to build her home, she toured and secured the water pipe, not far from the Egyptian border. A group of nine people went on a tour along the way from the borders of Nirim, passing through the Arab village of Shu’ut, where a large gang was ambushed and one of the houses was shot and immediately hit by a Bedouin mob, But the crowd caught up with one of the groups, and Miriam, who was in the second group, threw two grenades The three men managed to escape, but the crowd chased after Miriam and her two friends, and the two fell in the first kilometer, while Miriam, who was light-headed, ran away from the village until a Bedouin riding a horse caught her and shot her. The other two casualties were found in the field, and the body of Miriam was found near a small hole where she crawled with the last of her strength and died of the loss of much blood on the day of Kislev 5708 ). She was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak. On the 23rd of Elul 5714 (23.9.1954) she was transferred to the eternal military cemetery at the site. “The Grove of Mary” was planted in the Negev by the Jewish National Fund in memory of Miriam, 19 years old.