Spivak-Sheffy, Baruch

Son of Dovsha and Abraham. He was born on December 26, 1921 in Devosri, Russia. When he was three and a half, he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel. His first years of childhood were for him in Nahalal, which was then at the beginning of its construction. Eight years later his family settled in Kfar Vitkin in Emek Hefer. Baruch was the eldest son of his parents and the oldest son in the village. In the newly built moshav, he was well absorbed in agricultural life and absorbed the pioneering experience and the love of life and work. After graduating from elementary school, he moved to Kadouri Agricultural School near Mount Tabor to study in agriculture in preparation for his chosen way of life – land work and pioneering. With the outbreak of World War II he was one of the first volunteers to join the ranks of the British army fighting the Nazis. For four years he served in the “Palestine Battalion” (“Bafs”) from which the Jewish Brigade (the “Jewish Brigade”) was established in September 1944. In uniform he married and established a home in Israel. He began to establish a farm in the village where he grew up but his illness increased and overwhelmed him and on the 16th of Elul (August 25, 1945) he was laid to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kfar Vitkin.