Strykowski, Arie

Son of Betty and Akiva, was born on the 7th of Av 1927 in Tel Aviv. After graduating from elementary school, he specialized in factory settings and then helped his father in the iron trade. During the days of tense anticipation, the United Nations General Assembly held discussions on the future of the Land of Israel among the busses in the sea in the autumn, bringing immigrants from their ship to Nahariya. After the operation, which ended successfully, he said it was the most Yaffa day of his life. From the beginning of the War of Independence, he became active in December 1947, served in the “Carmeli” Brigade and volunteered to come to the aid of Kibbutz Yehiam, who was under siege. One time a light wound was injured in his head while carrying a wounded friend to the doctor. And again he scratched his hand as a machine gunner with 20 friends to secure the road to the convoy and the cover he had saved saved them all from falling into the hands of a large Arab unit. In defending friends and helping the weak and the wounded, he did not shrink from any danger, strengthened the spirit of his comrades and covered him with a sense of security during an assault. Later he participated in the conquest of Acre and the Western Galilee, was sent among the first to a commando course and excelled in it, and was later sent to a training course in Atlit, and was joined with the members of the unit who was sent for a punitive action against the village of Ein Ghazal due to traffic disorders on the Haifa-Tel Aviv road. Despite the warning of his friend to act while lying on the ground, Aryeh continued to shoot on his knees, so that his ribs in the enemy would be more precise, and thus he would be hit in the Lev and fell, on the first of Tammuz 57 (8.7.1948). He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Motzkin cemetery