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Rafaeli's life (25 May 1916 - 1 April 2013) was pre-presidents of the Hebrews, a representative-general of the Israeli Navy and the CEO of the maritime society to transport fruit. During World War II, he served in the British army and was captured by the German army in Greece and Italy, but escaped. On his activity in the enemy territory, he received a commendation in the British army.

Family and Girls
Rafaeli was born in Riga, the capital of Latvia, in 1916 to Chile and Raphael Ballet. His mother was proficient and specialized in wearing coats. His father was a trader, and he seems to have been working on the sale of the coats his wife produced. Raphaeli was a single son alongside three sisters, two older and one younger than him.

In his childhood, in November 1923, Jabotinsky visited Riga, and founded the revisionist Zionist Alliance (the revisionist Zionists, the chairman) and the Youth Organizations of Beitar, the world's first chair. It seems that the new movement had swept Raphaeli’s family, and one of his great sisters had risen to Israel in 1930 and joined the royalties in her room. Rafaeli himself also joined the youth activities in his hometown.

Rafaeli grew up and the heirs in Riga. Since nearly every member of the Barga family – about 100 people in the number – have been taught in the professional Jewish school in the city, it is possible to assume that Raphaeli also learned there.

He adopted his family name, Raphaeli, during World War II, to commemorate his father’s name, Raphael, who was collected in the Holocaust.

Until World War II
A decision made in the early 1930s by Jeremiah Halperran’s initiative influenced the whole adult life of Raleigh. It is about the decision to establish a maritime department in the Beitar, which aims to promote the maritime training of the Hebrew youth in the Diaspora. At the base of the initiative, the strategic, economic and security importance of controlling the sea for the country that is about to rise in Israel.

In two centers in Europe, the training of young Jews began: Braga whose Latvia began training sailors in practical training, while in Chitvakia, Italy, a maritime school was established for training sea officers. Rashi was educated in these two centers.

Naval Training in Latvia
The youth of Riga were impressed by the possibility of linking their rise to Israel with the idea of the development of the Hebrew centuries and their ability to be right and naval officers in the future Hebrew fleet. Many of them were accustomed to the sea of childhood, most of the hours of the summer holidays they spent in Riga, on the river of the Dagova, near its mouth to the Baltic Sea. On the long runners, they watched the port activity and followed the ships coming out and gatherings. Rafaeli, and other young people, volunteered for the maritime navigation course that was opened in the Beitar Braga nest. In May 1934, Raphaeli received his first book, issued by the authorities of the Riga port on livings Bletelis.

At the beginning of the summer in 1935, Raphaely rose with four more apprentices, on the cruise ship Theodore Herzl, which was acquired by the Beiter to serve as a training building for the training of the Hebrew sailors in the Baltic Sea. After a few weeks of familiarity with the ship, the young went out to the first cruise. The captain, the first officer, the captains and even the massacres were the Latvians, but the crew were all young than the Beitar movement. The flag at the top of the penis was a flag for Latvia, but the thigh was a blue and white flag and the name of the state contract was registered in black letters on its doses. The departure of the port was described as such:

Rafaeli sailed on the Theodore Herzl from the summer of 1935 to the summer of 1936, the cruises in which the ship led a cargo between various ports in the Baltic Sea to fund its operations.

Naval training in Chitvaki

In 1936, Raphaeli came with several of his friends to Italy to study at the Chitvaki Maritime School, where he opened a course of the High School of Sea officers. They joined the second cycle of the Hebrew Sea Officers Course, to which 50 people from all over Irre