Zuiri (Zwierszinski), Zvi

Was born in Grodno, Poland, and was educated in the “Tarbut” Gymnasium and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair in 1930. He immigrated to Israel in 1930, studied at Mikvah Israel and later worked in agricultural work In 1936, when he came to the orchards, he discovered that the two guards – Yoav and Yitzhak – had been murdered. He moved to the “Ahava” children’s institution in Kiryat Bialik where he managed the agricultural farm and served as an agricultural teacher, and during the Second World War, he joined the British army. And was involved in transporting equipment to the Soviet Union, where he served as an army censor and wrote articles about the lives of the soldiers to the Israeli press, where he loved the nature and the life of children and the landscape of the country, and his love was expressed in poems and stories he published, “He returned to Israel, married and settled in Kiryat Bialik, where he continued to work in the” Ahava “institution until he joined the 7th Brigade With the declaration of the state. The school administration obtained a release for him, but the announcement in the newspapers and radio reached him later. Zvi participated in the “son of-Nun Bet” operation – the second attack on the Latrun Legion in order to break through the road to Jerusalem. In this battle, on May 30, 1948, he fell and was buried in Na’an. He left behind a wife, Chava, and a daughter. On the 2nd of Sivan 5705 (18.5.1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.