Abzac, Suhail

Suhail, son of Nazala and Abd al-Raouf, was born on July 31, 1954, in Tarshiha, a member of the Circassian community in Israel. His mother is a member of the Muslim community. His father served in the police since the days of British rule in Israel. He attended elementary school in Tarshiha and later graduated from high school in the area and passed the matriculation exams. Suhail was an outstanding student. He studied in the humanistic track and loved mainly history studies. He was interested in electronics and electricity and was going to study at the university. His grades in the matriculation exams were good and allowed him to be admitted to any institution of higher learning; Indeed, while he was still in the army, he had to decide whether to choose medicine or electrical engineering, and he was educated as a loyal son of the Circassian community and an Israeli who was loyal to his country. Suhail was active in the social and cultural life of his village, and he was the living spirit among his friends and organized social meetings and evenings of joint recreation with them, he was an outstanding athlete, especially in the soccer field, and was one of the regular participants in the sports competitions held in the village. In mid-November 1972 he volunteered to serve in a elite reconnaissance unit of the IAF Sea, most of the structures of minorities. After completing basic training, he completed a course for squad commanders and a mortar battalion, and was promoted to the rank of corporal, and participated in operational activities along the country’s borders, and during the Yom Kippur War his unit participated in the occupation of the Hermon post, He and his friends were placed in the Mazra’at Beit Jann area and the War of Attrition took place on the morning of Thursday, 11 April 1974, when a terrorist squad took over a residential building in the city of Kiryat Shmona and began to kill every person on its way. Suhail was summoned to the scene and began a battle against the terrorists, and a elite unit of fighters broke into the house and liquidated the terrorist squad. He left behind his parents and four sisters, two of whom study at the University of Haifa, and wrote in a letter of condolences to the bereaved family: “Sohail was one of our best sons and fighters, A true warrior with the highest personal values ​​of a Circassian boy who was born in a free country and for which he paid the most expensive – the price of his life – a hard way from basic training, Starting with ongoing security work, through the greatest war in Israel – the Yom Kippur War, in which your son Suheil took an active role in the occupation The Hermon, and later in operational service, from the most difficult we know, until the day his lifeline was cut off in battle with murderers. I had a great future ahead of him. Suhail z “l was going to go to officers’ course, but unfortunately, Suhail was taken away from us and only his image remains and remains his work, which will accompany us forever as a living torch that will light our way day and night.