Givat Haviva Voice

Photographs & text: Lydia Aisenberg Haviva Reik (second from left) and her British Army Palmach commrades training in Egypt; the compass lost over 70 years ago and right:  Yaniv Sagee, Executive Director of Givat Haviva with compass at MORESHET presentation ceremony. A small pocket compass dropped in Slovakia by pre-State heroine Haviva Reik, the inside cover engraved with both the initials of her Hebrew name as well as that of her British Army nom de guerre Ada Robinson, was recently presented - 72 years after her execution in Slovakia by the Nazis – to the Givat Haviva Center for Shared Society, an educational campus in Israel named after her. Haviva Reik, a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in her teenage days in the Slovakian town of Banska Bystrica prior to Aliya in 1939, became a member of Kibbutz Ma’anit (situated next door to a former British Army base that later became Givat Haviva), was one of the first women to be recruited to the ranks of the Pa