Shefer, Libka

Daughter of Regina and Yitzhak, was born on August 20, 1914 in the city of Przemysl, Galicia. As a child, she was orphaned by her parents and grew up in the home of her relatives. The idea of ​​”Hashomer Hatzair” revived her Lev, she joined the movement and went to a training group. The group struggled with crises and illnesses and physical weakness, and was able to cope with them in difficult working conditions. On September 1, 1939, she immigrated to Israel. At first she worked at the Kibbutz Mitzpe Hayam in Netanya and then moved to Kibbutz Yad Mordechai and worked in several branches of the agriculture, and even managed accounts. She worked for two years in the newspaper Al Hamishmar and then returned to her position in the agriculture. On the verge of the War of Independence, she completed a provincial light weapons course. During the war, during the shelling and the assault of the Egyptian army on the agriculture, she served as a liaison between the positions running and crawling and jumping through excavations deep enough and even over open areas. She would say: “The coward who hides in the shelter dies thousands of times a day, who dares to go out, crawl through the canals, jump to the job, die only once.” Shells exploded around her and she was not hurt. When the defenders of the kibbutz were forced to leave the area, they carried a wounded Palmach man, along with Yitzhak Rubinstein, because of the heavy bombardment of the “Negev Animals”. May 24, 1948. Her memory was placed in the special pamphlet of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in memory of its fallen soldiers, on the 30th of May 1950. A monument to her memory was erected in the military section of the Yad Mordechai cemetery. Is a macaloon – a space whose burial place is unknown.