Pavel Samuel Kohn

Pavel Samuel Kohn (Pali), he left Trencin on July 10, 1939 by train to Trieste. From there he traveled 10 days by ship (on a boat named Galilee) to arrive in Palestine. He traveled with 30 young people aged 15-17 "Czech Maccabi Hazair". Only 4 of them were Slovaks. He settled in Dagania B, where he met his wife Ina Weinberger.

They left Dagania B on 1941 together to establish Kibbutz Matsuva on November 2nd, 1942, a settlement in the Western Galilee, located on Lebanese border. He founded the Mushroom growing field in Israel and Ina his wife worked on the chicken farm amongst other jobs.

Note: Maccabi Hazair was part of the Zionist youth movement in Czechoslovakia.

Note: Dagania B was a well-established agricultural settlement in the Jordan Valley, about 200 meters below sea level - close to the Jordan River and the Kineret Sea.

After a terminal illness, Pavel Samuel Kohn died with his wife and three children by his side on 9/22/2011 at the age of 89.