Zeitlin, Yitzhak

Son of Yeshayahu. He was born in 1913 in Riga, Latvia, and was a member of the Betar movement and was promoted to Betar deputy in Latvia in April 1931. He participated as a delegate at the first World Congress of Betar in Danzig. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Betar recruitment company in Hadera. After completing two years of service in the company, he moved to Tel Aviv where he worked as an electrician. After the outbreak of bloody riots in April 1936 he left despite the danger of his work in Jaffa, and upon his arrival there were reports of Arab attacks on the Shapira neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv. He immediately went there to help, and on the Jaffa edge of Herzl Street he was attacked and severely wounded. On the following day, on 29 Nisan, April 20, 1936, he died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the old cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv. His memory was immortalized in “The Book of Beitar”, a booklet commemorating the Jews of Latvia in the 1936 riots and “Blood and Fire – 1936-1937.”