Wiesel, Nadav

Son of Sarah Sonia and Elkana. Born on July 10, 1917 in Cairo, his father, a member of a family of refugees who came to Egypt from southern Ukraine, was a member of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish National Fund in Egypt, and his mother arrived there as a teacher on behalf of the Alliance school in France. In 1926, the father moved to Tel Aviv, where he completed elementary school, went to Nordia Gymnasium, and a year later moved to the agricultural school in Ben-Shemen where he graduated. He joined Hashomer Hatza’ir and was an active member of this movement in Tel Aviv and Ben Shemen, and when the family moved to Haifa, he served as a counselor in the Mishmar Ha’emek battalion in Haifa. After completing his studies in Ben Shemen, he joined the commune in Tel Aviv and worked as a construction worker, and after the outbreak of the 1936-1939 riots he enlisted as a patrolman for the Jewish Settlements Police in Yokne’am and volunteered for Operation Northern Fence on the Lebanese border. In Mishmar HaEmek, Nadav joined this group and was sent with his friends to the company that did its training in the settlement of Beit Gan in the Upper Galilee. He contracted typhoid fever and underwent a difficult period in the hospital in Safed. Until the outbreak of World War II, he was a member of Kibbutz “G” in Rishon Letzion (today Kibbutz Hatzor), and when World War II broke out, he volunteered for the Artillery Corps and was assigned to the unit that secured the Haifa Bay and the port. On 28 Kislev, January 7, 1942, bandits opened fire and Nadav was killed on the spot and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Rishon LeZion, and his name was immortalized in the memory pages by his friends at Kibbutz Hatzor.