Shachori (Charney Hersch), Zvi

Son of-Nechama and Yehoshua, was born on July 7, 1914 in the city of Siedlce, Poland. As a son of a devout family, he received his first education in a room and later moved to a school where he excelled in his studies and painting. When he was 13, he joined Hashomer Hatzair and was one of the active members of the local branch, a youth counselor, loved by his students, cheerful and Simcha and admired by his friends. In 1933 he went on a training course in Kutno, Chelm, Lublin, until he immigrated to Israel in 1939. He joined Kibbutz Yad Mordechai and it was not long before he became involved in the site. Zvi adapted to work in Toria in Pardes, went to Zichron Yaakov for harvest and was one of the first members of the kibbutz’s fishing company. For a certain period he also served as a guard in various places in Israel. Twice his life was threatened – during a landslide, during the digging of a pit, in which his friend was killed, and in a road accident. He was one of the first immigrants on the land of its swords, Yad Mordechai. Zvi knew no boundaries in his devotion to work, to the kibbutz and to his projects. He was a member of various committees and at the outbreak of the War of Independence after the UN General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, he was elected to a foreign center of the factories. On the second day of the campaign, on May 20, 1948, he felt the need for a position to ward off the repeated incursions of the Egyptian enemy. Until the enemy bullet hit him and he was transferred to the doctor’s shelter, and in his last moments he was in a good mood, and after five hours he took his breath. V. The eleventh day of Kislev Ts”t (12.13.1948), with the release of Yad Mordechai from the Egyptians, brought Lmnoht- to rest in the cemetery of Yad Mordechai.