Vardi, Shmuel David

Son of Nathan. He was born in 1899 in the city of Bedzin, Poland. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel as a pioneer. He worked in paving the roads of Tiberias-Tzemach and Afula-Nazareth and in various jobs in the Ruhama and Beer Tuvia settlements. For a while he kept the groves of Be’er Tuvia. He was even arrested by the British because of a land dispute with the surrounding Arabs. After he was released, he moved to Tel Aviv and joined a group of workers who engaged in construction work in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood. On 29 Av, August 23, 1922, when the group returned from work, he was shot in an ambush. Shmuel was shot and killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv. Lines in his memory and his image were uploaded in pamphlets “Kuntress” and “HaPoel HaTza’ir” and in “What and Who in Defense and the Struggle”.