Weiss, Reuven (Bobby)
Son of Siegfried, was born in 1922 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, to an affluent and assimilated family. He received his education in Christian elementary and high schools. He was also a member of a Christian Scout movement and only with the rise of Nazism did his eyes open and surrender to his Jewish way. Upon his immigration to Israel in 1939, he joined a youth company and underwent training in Einot and Ma’aleh Hachamisha. Reuven volunteered for the British army with the aim of avenging Israel’s enemies, but it was a long time before he reached the front lines. At first he served as a gunner in the Coast Guard in Israel, and later arrived in Italy. Returned to Israel to participate in the group’s immigration to Gezer and worked in a rural farm in his spare time. He even called the “kibbutz” that was established in the Buchenwald camp and taught it the Hebrew language. Although he had been outside his group for a long time, he returned after his release. In his spare time, he worked in photography. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he postponed his trip to his relatives in the United States and remained in the agriculture, when he was in charge of the telephone network and commander of the outpost. In the last battle, he tried in vain to reach his position, which was extreme and dangerous, and was attached to the combat unit of the Combatant Battalions, which was situated near the Ramle-Latrun road and the Legion forces in the area saw it as a threat, Towards noon, the enemy force, which consisted of a Legion Company, organized irregular and armored forces and attacked the kibbutz. Heavy enemy fire destroyed the defensive positions and paralyzed any possibility of organized resistance. The enemy managed to break into the agriculture and conquer it. In this battle David fell. He was brought to eternal rest in Gezer.
