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Sobol, David

Sobol, David


The only son of Yaffe and Yisrael was born on 21.12.1922 in the city of Dubna, western Poland (then Poland), to well-to-do parents who tended to assimilate (his father was a pharmacist), and attended elementary and high school in Poland, He found his way to the Hashomer Hatzair branch, and the rise in anti-Semitism in Poland brought about changes in his parents’ mood. When David asked them in 1938 to join the convoy organized by his nest and immigrate to Israel as part of Youth Aliyah, For a certain period of time, with the promise that next year, once they had received the grandfather’s estate, they would go up with him, while the Second World War broke out, Where he volunteered for the Polish army in the hope that he would come to the Middle East with him and remain in Palestine, but he was sent to a battalion that fought against the Germans, was seriously wounded in the battle and was captured, disguised as a non-Jew, After the liberation, he volunteered to educate and teach children in a DP camp in Austria, and later joined a kibbutz of his movement, which was established on the road of wandering, and arrived in Israel on the path of illegal immigration on June 27, 1946. When he was accepted as a member of Kibbutz Mizra, he said simply, “This is the happiest day of my life. Since then he has done his homework in the farm and has protected him. In the winter of 1948, at the beginning of the War of Independence, when some members of the kibbutz were drafted into the army, he expressed his desire to enlist as well, “to participate in the mission of all the members.” His wish was fulfilled when he was drafted under the protection quota for the Jordan Valley, When he stood with his class in front of a Syrian attack of a large armored force in the Mishmar Hayarden area, he and three other comrades felt that a wounded man had been wounded from the line of fire. (June 12, 1948). He was buried in Rosh Pina. On the 13th of Tevet, 12.12.1950, he was transferred at the request of the kibbutz to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Afula, and his memory was included in the booklet “In Memory of Kibbutz Mizra”.

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