Yampoler, Shmuel (Mitchak)

Born in Tarnopol, Poland on June 29, 1914, son of Rosa and Moshe grew up in his grandfather’s home where he absorbed the Zionist consciousness, and in 1920 returned to his father’s home and attended elementary school in the city, Shmuel moved to Eretz Israel in 1934 to study at the Technion in Haifa, but after a year left school and began to work in the technical department of the post office. During the bloody riots of 1936-1939, he was one of the first recruits to the railway guards’ unit and took part in guarding in various places in the country. He was active in sports and reading books, and in 1946 he was appointed to work at Solel Boneh, and worked in the Haifa oil refineries, and was well-known for his meticulous workmanship and devotion to the workers under his supervision. On December 17, 1947, Irgun members dropped a bomb into a group of Arab workers, opposite the entrance gate to the refineries in Haifa Bay. Six Arabs were killed and others wounded. The news spread quickly in the area of ​​the refineries and Arab workers attacked their Jewish friends and began to slaughter them. Within two hours, thirty-nine Jews, including Shmuel, were brutally murdered. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and a daughter.