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>and ran guns and Holocaust survivors to Palestine
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>Clintons testify this week.
>Expect terror.
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The family reunited in Chicago in 1934, where Leon Gabinet attended public schools and Zionist Hebrew school. He joined Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth group.
After graduating from high school in 1944, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving until August 1946.
“He told us he enlisted because he wanted to fight the Nazis and because he recognized and saw it as a way to get the higher education he craved through the GI Bill,” Siegel said.
His cruiser was struck in a Japanese kamikaze attack during the battle of Okinawa in 1945. He pulled a severely injured sailor from a turret, Siegel said, saving his life. About 250 lives were lost. Leon Gabinet survived on a lifeboat, waiting for hours for rescue.
In 1947, he went to Palestine for several months as a Halutznik, a pioneer, where he lived on Kibbutz Sasa in the Upper Galilee and worked in an apple orchard.
From Israel, he returned to the United States three times to pick up disassembled guns, returning to Israel by ship, with a stop in France to pick up Holocaust survivors.
“My dad was pegged because he was a brave guy, but also because he was fluent in many of the languages that the Holocaust survivors spoke,” Sarah Gabinet said at his funeral. “Whether it be Yiddish or German or Polish, and so he was invaluable. … He made it twice, back and forth. The third time, not so lucky.”
The ship was stopped and Leon Gabinet was placed in an internment camp on Cypress for two weeks.
He decided to leave Israel to return to Chicago because he wanted an education.
After he returned to Chicago, he met Laille Schutz, at a party, Sarah Gabinet told the Cleveland Jewish News, Dec. 13.
“She was a beautiful redheaded woman, and she was extremely bright, and she was a Zionist,” she said.
The two married in Chicago Dec. 19, 1948, and were married for 56 years until Laille Gabinet’s death July 14, 2004.
At about the same time he met his wife, Leon Gabinet went to college, medical school and then law school, all at the University of Chicago. He also played Junior A hockey.
After graduating from law school, he served as a clerk for an Oregon Supreme Court justice, then worked for the state tax commission, and for a Portland law firm “as their first Jewish hire,” Siegel said.
In 1968, he decided to leave law practice for the classroom and accepted a job at CWRU.
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When he lived in Chicago, Leon Gabinet, right became a Junior A hockey player.
Photo / Case Western Reserve University
“In these 53 years, he truly adopted Cleveland as his home,” said Siegel, adding some of his favorite memories entail watching Cleveland Browns or Indians games with Leon Gabinet.
Siegel said when Leon Gabinet came to Sarah’s and his house for dinner, “He invariably entered and continued through much of the visit humming or singing any of a multitude of songs.”
Those could be Jewish songs, show tunes, classical melodies, standards, Christian hymns or Christmas carols.
“When our family now gathers for a meal, we no longer have the person to say, ‘Eat that. It will put hair on your chest,’” Siegel said.
Gabinet is survived bythree children, Sarah Gabinet (John Siegel) of Shaker Heights, Kathryn Kroo (Ira Kroo) of Montreal,Arthur Gabinet (Christina Paxson) of Providence, R.I.; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his dear companion, Louise Mooney of Avon. He was predeceased by his half-sister, Marion Siskind and his wife of 56 years, Laille Gabinet (Schutz).
Donations in his memory be made to Beth El-The Heights Synagogue, 3246 Desota Ave., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118; Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106; or the Hospice of the Western Reserve, P.O. Box 72101, Cleveland, OH 44192.
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