Shak, Avraham-Zvi (Hershele)

Son of Miriam and Israel. He was born in 1905 in Zamosc, Poland. He attended school in the town and in 1926, during the “Third Aliya”, he immigrated to Eretz Israel. As a worker he knew years of hunger and lack of work and wandered from one place to another. He worked in the port of Haifa, where only a few Jews worked. He was one of the Sarafand-Jerusalem roadlords. He worked in the Nesher quarries and in the large mills in Haifa. In Safed he worked as part of the government’s initiated works and also served in the police. The family eventually settled in Haifa. He was active in the Hagana organization in the city and was one of the first volunteers to “Maccabi Fire” in Hadar Hacarmel. During the bloody riots that broke out in 1936, he enlisted in the Guard Corps and was sent to protect the Negev. In late August 1939, an armored car went out to bring water from Beer Tuvia to the kibbutz. On the way the car came up on a mine laid by Arabs from the surrounding area who had harassed the settlement. Avraham was seriously wounded and two days later, on September 18, 1939, died of his wounds. He was laid to rest at the Hof Hacarmel cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and two sons. In the “Remembering the Missing” section of the Davar newspaper, a list was published in his memory.