Aaron Blitzky

Son of Sabina-Shifra and Abraham-Abba. Born in the German town of Degendorf, Germany, to parents who survived the Holocaust, his parents married and established a new family after his father lost his family during the Second World War – a wife and three children. They moved to Kiryat Motzkin in 1949. Two years later they moved to Kiryat Bialik, where Aharon grew up and studied at Bialik Elementary School in Kiryat Bialik and continued his high school in Kiryat Haim. “His mother, Sabina-Shifra, died when she was 42 years old when Aharon was 15 years old, father Yo-Avraham Abba died three years later when Aharon was 18 years old, shortly after his enlistment, and in 1965 he enlisted in the IDF and after a paramedics course was stationed as a combat medic in the Egoz unit, which was active in the Syrian sector at the time. During his service, he joined the ambushes until he fell ill and was evacuated to a hospital. In the hospital, a serious injury was discovered in his kidneys, a disease that had its effect several years later. In his shadow, Aaron lived his last years and he shortened his life. As a result of the change in his medical profile, Aharon was transferred to serve as a paramedic in the Medical Corps until he was discharged from reserve duty due to his disability. Aharon completed marketing studies at the University of Haifa and was appointed marketing director of the Hamlet Israel-Canada plant in Haifa Bay, a position he continued to fill until his death. In 1973, he married Esther of Beit Degani. They had two children: Shafir in 1974 and Naama in 1977. Aaron had a positive and optimistic attitude to life, and was always Simcha and kind. He had a rare talent for languages ​​and a great love for history; A man of friendship, very kind and loved; Husband, father and exemplary friend. For about fifteen years Aaron suffered from his illness, which made him disabled, and for which he needed dialysis and hospitalization. In 1987 he underwent kidney transplantation, but his experience failed. In 1990 he went to Germany for another transplant attempt with the assistance of the Ministry of Defense Rehabilitation Department. But after a three-month stay, during which he underwent a series of tests and treatments required for the transplant, he did not have the strength. Even before the transplant he died, after a month in which he lay in the hospital unconscious. Cpl. Aharon Blitzky died on 9 Tishrei 5751 (28.9.1990). He was forty-three when he died. He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Bialik cemetery. Survived by a wife – Esther, Son of Shafir and Daughter of – Naama