Wiesner, Isaiah

Son of-Sarah and Mordechai, was born on May 24, 1925 in the city of Kisvarda, Hungary, and immigrated to Israel in 1937. He studied at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and the Petach Tikvah yeshiva and worked in polishing diamonds in 1943. In 1943 he joined the underground Etzel and dedicated itself to the liberation of the homeland from foreign rule. He took part in daring and very dangerous actions out of a belief in victory and a willingness to give his life for victory. During the attack on the police station in Ramat Gan in April 1946, he was seriously injured in the neck, but managed to escape. “Nothing, do not look at me with pity,” he told his friends. “The weapon I boycotted will be more useful than the blood I gave him.” When he recovered he could not stay in his home in Petah Tikva, because the police began looking for him, and moved to Ramat Gan. He served as a storekeeper in Petah Tikva. He did not settle for “sitting on the dishes,” and in the harassment in 1947 he participated in planting mines, blowing up cars, etc. After the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the land on November 29, 1947, he was expected to welcome the unity of the nation, in which the hostility between the fighters of the homeland would cease. In early 1948 he was appointed commander of his organization’s training base near Petah Tikva. He took part in the Irgun attack on Jaffa, and in this action he fell on April 29, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva.