The following month, she accepted the offer made by the partisans to fight the Axis forces and joined the new Goce Delcev partisan unit and then transferred to the Stiv Naumov Battalion when it was formed on 11 November.
When the battalion was integrated into the 3rd Macedonian Brigade, Ovadya was appointed as the political commissar of her squad.
Her unit helped to organize the founding meeting of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (Macedonian: Антифашистичко Собрание за Народно Ослободување на Македонија, Antifašističko Sobranie za Narodno Osloboduvanje na Makedonija; Serbo-Croatian: Antifašističko sobranje narodnog oslobođenja Makedonije) on 2 August 1944, which created the Republic of Macedonia.

Ovadya was appointed commissar of a battalion in the newly formed 7th Macedonian Brigade on 21 August and she was killed in combat with units of the Bulgarian Army on Kajmakčalan four days later.
Ovadya was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero and Bitola built a monument in her honor after the war.
The following month, she accepted the offer made by the partisans to fight the Axis forces and joined the new Goce Delcev partisan unit and then transferred to the Stiv Naumov Battalion when it was formed on 11 November. When the battalion was integrated into the 3rd Macedonian Brigade, Ovadya was appointed as the political commissar of her squad. Her unit helped to organize the founding meeting of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (Macedonian: Антифашистичко Собрание за Народно Ослободување на Македонија, Antifašističko Sobranie za Narodno Osloboduvanje na Makedonija; Serbo-Croatian: Antifašističko sobranje narodnog oslobođenja Makedonije) on 2 August 1944, which created the Republic of Macedonia. 
Ovadya was appointed commissar of a battalion in the newly formed 7th Macedonian Brigade on 21 August and she was killed in combat with units of the Bulgarian Army on Kajmakčalan four days later. Ovadya was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero and Bitola built a monument in her honor after the war.
Haim Estreya Ovadya