Uncle Shmuel was born in Turkey in 1909, to Yomtov and Kaden Mukatel.

He had two brothers (Itzhak and Chelebon-Binyamin) and two sisters (Miryam and Ester).

He was also known as Kemal Mukatel.

In 1934, his family adopted a new family name: Aydinlik (a word in Turkish).

New family name in Turkish: In 1934, Turkey issued the "Surnames Law". According to this law, all families had to get a family name in the Turkish language. Consequently, Jewish families too had to accept new family names, in Turkish. The new family name Uncle Shmuel and his family received was AYDINLIK.

Uncle Shmuel married Aunt Lea Arav in 1936, in Ankara, Turkey. They had four children: Yomtov and Aaron (born in Ankara) and Moshe and Carmela (born in Eretz-Israel).

Uncle Shmuel, Aunt Lea, Yomtov and Aaron

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). The Beit Olim was in Nahalat Yehuda, a town near Rishon Lezion. From there they moved to a permanent residence in Ezra Ubezaron, a suburb of  Rishon Lezion (since 1966 name of this suburb is Ramat Eliyahu).

Uncle Shmuel and Aunt Lea

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

Uncle Shmuel passed away on June 23, 1993, in Ramat Eliyahu. His grave is in "The Old Cemetery", in Rishon Lezion.

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