Zaeeri (Klein), Nathan

Son of Moshe and Sheinka, one of the founders of Kibbutz Naan. Nathan was born on June 17, 1939 in the kibbutz. He completed his elementary and high school studies and then went to work as the center of the agriculture in the son of Shemen Youth Village. He loved music, especially classical music. Who aspired and even worked for the integration of agricultural work in education. Nathan fully embodied the characteristics of his generation, whose goal was to renew the covenant between the people and the land through the cooperation between man and land and between man and man – and also through cooperation between us and our neighbors. He loved the country and saw himself as part of it. Was drafted to the IDF in December 1956. He was then sent to France to study the MX tank, and when he returned he underwent an officer’s course, reached the rank of lieutenant and was later discharged as a tank commander. After his release he was a center in the son of Shemen Youth Village. He was an operations officer in the armored corps. In fact, a man of peace was and when the Six-Day War was imposed on the land, he gave a long letter in various directives regarding each of the branches of the agriculture. At the outbreak of the fighting, he knew that he was fighting for his own country, in defense of his home and family – and with devotion and loyalty, who had marked him all his life, fought and fell in the battle for the conquest of Gaza after fighting valiantly and resourcefully to save the lives of many of his comrades. During the battle, in which he ordered a caterpillar and aimed his machine gun against the enemy in order to cover the movement of his comrades, Nathan fell. It was on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. He left a wife and a son. He was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to eternal rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz. In the name of the unit, in whose ranks Nathan was killed and killed, the commander wrote a letter of condolence to the family, among other things, stating that “Nathan’s heroism before us is to elevate the spirit and fill the Lev with pride because these are the figures filling the ranks of the IDF. Nathan fell for the conquest of Gaza, one of the most difficult and bitter battles in the Bnei Or war, in which the price paid for it was a rabbi. “After that they were raised to the rank of captain, and son of Shemen Youth Village erected a memorial in his memory. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Na’an – and among them – his memory was raised, and in the book “Five Sons” published by Na’an, his battalion published a pamphlet in memory of its fallen men. In the booklet of Hakibbutz Hameuchad, which he published in memory of the kibbutzim who fell in the battle, his name was immortalized. Li Esh “, Volume IV – was brought from his estate.