Abiri, Chaim

Chaim, son of Rivka and Israel, was born on the 4th of Cheshvan 5711 (November 4, 1950) in Haifa. He studied at the Maaleh Hacarmel Elementary School, and later continued his studies at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, Haim was drafted into the IDF at the end of January 1969 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, where he helped prepare leaflets, wrote notes and illustrated them in his sketches. After completing his commanding course, Haim returned to the battalion and served as a squadron commander at the paratroopers base, and a year later he began to study medicine and was assigned to reserve duty, and in the fall of 1971 he was accepted to the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He edited and published them by Acadmon Publishing together with his classmate and his wife Three booklets concluded by the material taught in lectures: “Physical Chemistry – atomic theory and chemical kinetics;” “botany lectures and labs;” Anatomy of the brain and nervous system. ” The pamphlets serve as a teaching material for many medical students. Prof. Y. Rabbani, who is one of the authors on the subject of his lectures, noted that despite the short period of his acquaintance with Haim, he was impressed by his talent and thoroughness. He married his girlfriend three days before the Yom Kippur War. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Chaim was called to his unit, sent with her to Sinai and crossed the Suez Canal to the west. On October 17, 1973, at the time his unit was about to capture the Seraphim compound, an anti-tank shell hit the half-track that Haim was driving. The soldiers jumped out of the half-track and attacked a building from which a dense fire was fired, and Haim was hit by a bullet in his chest and killed, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. In light of a pamphlet in memory of his fallen soldiers, in which his memory was raisedAnd the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published a booklet, “Nizkor”, in memory of its fallen soldiers during the Yom Kippur War, in which he also spoke about him; The Jerusalem Post, dated May 3, 1974, contains a page in his memory, in which the editor of the section on Haim, two of Haim’s notes, as well as a letter from his mother and a conversation with his parents