Wertheim, Israel

Born in 1906 in Lublin, Poland, to a religiously observant family, he himself assimilated among the Poles and was far from any national Zionist interest, and in 1934 he immigrated with a group of Christian workers as an expert on the glass factory in Rishon Letzion. He became a member of the Histadrut, and at the outbreak of 1936 he volunteered as a policeman. He served in Nazareth for several days and was later transferred to the Kaduri School near Mount Tabor. Here he began to study Hebrew, fulfilled his duty with devotion and became fond of all his acquaintances. Shortly after joining the police, he received a letter from his wife who remained in Lublin asking him to return to Poland because he had a job there, but he refused to return. On 6 Av, July 25, 1936, he served in the Kadouri School and was killed by a bullet and died in a hospital in Afula. His eight-year-old daughter was told that her father had died on guard duty in Eretz Israel. He left a wife, daughter and mother in Poland, and his memory was immortalized in the books “The 1936-1937 events” and “Blood and Fire”.