fbpx
Zuckerman, Aharon (Ehud, Esh)

Zuckerman, Aharon (Ehud, Esh)


Son of-Miriam and Avraham-Shlomo was born on December 5, 1910 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and was educated in the home of his parents in the spirit of tradition, learned Hebrew and knowledge in Judaism and acquired high school education and later worked as a bookkeeper, Zionist youth and recently joined the Masada national organization, who immigrated to Israel in 1931 and joined the Betar company in Hadera. Worked in citrus orchards with his friends, who knew him as a guide and leader, who demanded more of himself than he did, and indeed Aaron managed to strengthen their spirit and loyalty to the idea despite the difficult living conditions. In 1933 he moved to a settlement nucleus of recruitment graduates in Tel-Binyamin, Ramat Gan. On the Day of Atonement, 1934, he blew a shofar at the Western Wall, was arrested and spent two weeks in prison, returning to Hadera and active in organizing Betar and National Haganah branches with the Hagana headquarters in those places. He succeeded in bringing his family to Israel and helped them settle in Hadera. In 1939, he was transferred to Netanya for training in Samaria and the Sharon. At the time of the split in the Etzel, he joined the Avraham Stern group first, then stood little by side, and after the fall of the commander David Raziel in Iraq returned to the ranks of the Irgun. He was deported from Israel to detention camps in Eritrea, Sudan, and Kenya, until he was returned to Israel in June 1947 and released on condition that he was sent to detention camps in Eritrea and Kenya. To report daily to the Hadera police, and his old parents tried to persuade him to resign from all the underground affairs and to be a quiet citizen, and he obeyed the instructions of the police, but the underground struggle against the British did not allow him to sit in peace, (Nicknamed “Gonder Ehud”) and was appointed in charge of weapons production. He participated in planning operations against the British in the winter of 1948. Finally he took part in the Irgun attack on the Manshiyya neighborhood in northern Jaffa, and fell during a search operation in one of the streets of Manshiyya on April 30, 1948. Was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Hadera with the participation of a large crowd.

Skip to content