Shteinfeld, Naftali

Son of Avraham. He was born on October 4, 1926, in a small village in Hessen, Germany, to a family with a farm and a shop. His father died when Naftali was a child. The family remained in the village and the children attended the local agricultural school. In 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the Jews increased, the older brother immigrated to America, while Naftali moved to an orphanage in Frankfurt am Main. After Passover in 1939 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and came to the religious youth village near Kfar Hasidim where he spent five and a half years, worked diligently and studied diligently, was aware of what was happening in all branches of the agriculture. On 21 Kislev (26.11.1945) British army and police forces surrounded Kibbutz Givat Haim on the grounds that the traces of people who sabotaged observation stations and also to identify and arrest illegal immigrants who had arrived in the kibbutz a short time before. Many of the residents of the area were called to the aid of Givat Hayim, including almost all the members of the Shlichut, which at the time was about sixty members, and when they began to march in the open field, without weapons in their hands, the army opened fire. Naftali was killed. He was brought to eternal rest in the old cemetery in Pardes Hannah, along with his classmate Ayala Tenenbaum, one of the group of shluchot. The funerals of the fallen became a big demonstration of the mourning and angry Yishuv and some of its leaders carried out eulogies. A group of shluchot issued a pamphlet in memory of the two that fell. His name was also immortalized in the book on the history of the Haganah.