Volterra, Reuven (Renato)

Son of Italy and Arnaldo, was born on 18.11.1924 in the city of Milan, Italy. Born to an ancient Italian Jewish family. He was educated in the spirit of assimilation, but he found the way to Zionism, and he is still a boy. With the rise of anti-Semitism in Italy, his parents agreed to immigrate to Israel as part of Youth Aliyah at the end of 1939. At that time he was accepted by the youth movement from Italy in Givat Brenner and joined the Hanoar Haoved movement. A year later, he moved with his friends to Ashdot Yaakov until his nucleus settled in Revivim in 1943. Reuven was a clear farmer and specialized in the plantation industry, a quiet and confident youngster. When his parents immigrated to Israel he transferred them to his kibbutz Revivim, but they did not acclimatize there. His mental agitation was difficult to see that his parents were not adapting to the conditions of the country, but did not give up his ambitions and did not accept their proposal to return to a comfortable life abroad. When they returned to the city, he returned with them to help them, but when they left the country he did not join them and returned to his kibbutz. He worked in the farm with devotion and love, and he planted the trees that glorified the farm, but did not enjoy the fruit. On the 16th of Tevet 5708 (16.12.1947), when he traveled with five of his friends to Bir-Asluj, to order an ambulance for a wounded friend, was shot from the ambush and died of his wounds, and was brought to rest in the Revivim cemetery.