AN AMAZING RECOLLECTION

This is still a sensitive realization, and one very difficult to process and file away with the other neshomas murdered by our enemies; there are others that when recalled still elicit tears and a deep sadness.

On September 16, 2018, Tishrei 7, 5779, the Jewish nation lost a hero, online warrior Ari Fuld*, an American-born resident of Efrat who was murdered at the Gush Etzion Junction, after spending his last breath in an effort to neutralize the terrorist who had stabbed him.

In 1946, German-born Bracha Fuld* was the first female Jewish fighter killed in clashes with the soldiers of the British government, in Tel Aviv.

Matzav Haruach editor Chagai Hoberman pointed out on Friday that 72 years ago, on Tishrei 27, 5707 (October 22, 1946), the British army boarded an illegal immigration ship, the S.S. Bracha Fuld, with close to one thousand Holocaust survivors on board. The boat was dragged to Haifa harbor, where a brawl broke out between the British and the Jews. The British soldiers eventually subdued the Jewish refugees, who were taken to His Majesty’s concentration camps on the island of Cyprus, where they remained until the declaration of independence in May, 1948.

The boat was named after a young member of the Palmach shock troops of the Hagana underground, who was born in Berlin in December 1927. Her father, who had served in the German army in WW1, committed suicide in 1938 in response to Kristalnacht. Bracha (who was originally named Barbara by her parents) was smuggled to London, where she got an aliyah certificate and came to Palestine, joined the Palmach in 1944 and was one of a small group of women enrolled in a squad commanders’ course—where she was named outstanding cadet. She was made an officer at the age of 18 and commanded several platoons and military detachments.

In March 1946, a ship of illegal Jewish immigrants from Italy was set to arrive in Palestine, and the Hagana leadership insisted that it throw anchor off the Tel Aviv shore. Fuld and her squad were sent to protect a stretch of road where the Hilton hotel today stands, where rowboats would unload their passengers from the ship on the high seas. The ship was captured and diverted by the British before it managed to make it to Tel Aviv, but the message to abort the mission did not reach Fuld and her squad in time, and they soon faced a British tank unit. Fuld was badly wounded in an exchange of fire with the British crew, which, instead of taking her to hospital, took her to a police station to be interrogated. She died of her injuries shortly thereafter – rumor had it that her captors killed her.

On the same day the Bracha Fuld ship was captured, October 22, 1946, a group of young B’nei Akiva graduates established the third Gush Etzion settlement of Ein Tzurim. Gush Etzion was destroyed in 1948 by the invading Jordanians, only to be rebuilt after the 1967 victory over Jordan. Which marks the eternal line that connects the Jewish heroine Bracha Fuld and the Jewish hero Ari Fuld.

As appeared on the Jewish Press
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Is there a familial link?

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There is a further link to Ari Fuld in the Barkan attack:

Ari Fuld Visits a Barkan Recycling Plant: This past May, Ari Fuld visited a recycling plant in the Barkan Industrial Park and talked about peaceful coexistence. This morning a that peaceful coexistence was broken again after an Arab terrorist shot 3 people in one of the recycling plants located in that same industrial park. Video of Ari at the plant here.

A very astute commenter picked up on this:
This weak and foolish BIBI Government is not connecting the dots; Ari " target killing" and now this terror " target attack" that Ari exposed, are so connected....Time to annex Judea and Samaria and apply resolution Ezekiel 37,15 ….. I am so surprised that this factory-industry, did not had a security team....unbelievable...in London even a retail store, that sells designer clothing, and most business of smaller size, have a security guard.....Israel and israelies must wake up, and see how London that is not a country at war, is so organized on securing business; while Israel seems like it's unprotected...Time to make security at work, roads, and main places, the top priority in Israel...