Aunt Lea, my father's sister, was born in 1918 in Ankara, Turkey, to Ester and Aaron Arav. She had three brothers (Itzhak-Isaac, Avraham and Yehuda) and two sisters (Sara and Fanny).

Aunt Lea married Uncle Shmuel Mukatel Aydınlık in 1936, in Ankara. They had four children: Yomtov, Aaron, Moshe and Carmela.

Aunt Lea and Uncle Shmuel

Uncle Shmuel, Aunt Lea and their children Yomtov and Aaron immigrated to Eretz-Israel (Mandatory Palestine, under British administration), in 1942. First, they lived in a temporary residence, in a "Beit Olim = House for immigrants" (many families who just arrived in Eretz-Israel lived in such houses while sharing the kitchen and toilet room).

Uncle Shmuel, Aunt Lea and the children stayed in "House for immigrants" in Nahalat Yehuda, a town near Rishon Lezion. A few years later, they moved into a better housing in Ezra Ubezaron, Rishon Lezion (name of Ezra Ubezaron is Ramat Eliyahu, since 1966). 

Aunt Lea, Uncle Shmuel and their children

In 1970, the family adopted a new surname, in Hebrew: Naor.

Aunt Lea and Uncle Shmuel

Aunt Lea Naor widowed in 1993.

She passed away on May 16, 2005, in Ramat Eliyahu. Her grave is in "The Old Cemetery", in Rishon Lezion.

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