Jacqueline’s daughter and daughter. Esther was born in Ramle on the 8th of Adar 5705 (March 8, 1955). She grew up in a family of seven children, a sister to Meir, Yishai, Ibt, Aliza, Nissim and Israel. Father Jacqueline worked with his family in construction, and Jacqueline worked in a household and especially ran the house and the children, while most of her time was devoted to the brother Nissim who contracted polio when he was six years old. Ernie-that’s what Esther was called-studied in Ramle, her hometown, in a religious primary school and in high school. She was a young woman who was quiet and loved by her entire family and her surroundings, and at school she knew her as a quiet, hard-working student. Etti grew up in a religious home, and the possibility that she enlisted in the army was not taken into account by her family, but at the end of her high school studies she decided to surprise everyone with breaking the conventions and enlisting in the IDF. After the war, she moved to the Home Front Command base in Ramla, where she served with me for about ten years: After completing her mandatory service, she began permanent service in the warehouse registration department. Arbib, who later became her husband, recalls: “On one of her visits to Sharm el-Sheikh, I met her on board the plane . A quiet and modest soldier. I knew in advance that she was not a servant at the place so I started asking questions and inquiring about her life. Instead of going to a friend’s wedding I stayed with her. In October 1977 they married at the age of twenty-two, out of true love and without financial means on both sides. “Born in December 1978, Keren was born in March 1984, and Netanel was born in May 1990.” A normal family, a couple with three children, “Moti writes,” grows them with ease and joy. “In 1984 she moved to serve in the food center, purchasing and documenting food commodities, and successfully completed various courses, including an industrial and management technicians course at the maintenance school, which promoted her to senior positions. She has received many more certificates of honor, and has been promoted to the rank of senior sergeant And was the head of the Procurement and Logistics Department at the Food Center, which is responsible for purchasing basic food products for food baskets, and was considered an authority in the computer system and allocations to bases, and worked with food bases throughout the country, For improved food and increased allocation, saying that they were the ones who held the army and the line against the enemy, and was always struggling to provide them with fresh and plentiful products, and these units recognized its efficiency and appreciated it. After Etti realized the dream of starting a family and building a career in military service, she began to pursue a range of other dreams: university degree studies and the bourgeois dream of a private home. The first dream was fulfilled. At the same time her young son, when Nathaniel began first grade, began her academic studies, studying for a bachelor’s degree in business administration. A year later my husband and I began to realize our second dream, when they bought a plot of land for self-construction in Rishon Letzion. In July 1999, I began to feel exhaustion and daily headaches. It was only after her husband’s many pleas – because she hated doctors and tests – that she came to see me. The results showed that my daughter had a cancerous tumor in her brain that gave her edema. Her husband, Moti, says: “This revelation fell on us like a thunderstorm, and she was the last girl to have something like this: thin, modest, not drinking, not smoking, taking the animal”At the end of August 1999, a week after the discovery, I underwent a long and complicated brain surgery, which eventually resulted in most of the increase, but the ability to speak and function in my right hand was damaged. At the time, Etti wrote to herself for the New Year: “I will have an easy year at work, when I will finish my studies, that the entire house will pass successfully, that the children fulfill their aspirations, grow up and enjoy us, and most of all Important for health. “During her recovery, she collected a force fee, and after receiving permission to be examined in bed A few weeks later, she left with me to choose the floor for the house that she and her husband had begun to build, and it was her will and her request from her family to continue The chemotherapy treatments she started with were very difficult, her slim body did not withstand it, and on the second treatment at the Tel Hashomer hospital, she died, and Etti fell during her duties on December 12, 1999. Forty-four years old in the fall. She was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. She left a husband, two sons and a daughter, four brothers and two sisters. At the funeral, Etti eulogized her family, officers who worked with her, soldiers under her command and neighbors. They all talked about her extensive work, her contribution to society and her being a woman of valor in every field. “We all do not forget her for a moment,” her husband Moti wrote. “At that moment our lives changed radically: there is life before me and there is life after. A certificate of appreciation and honor from the IDF states: “Esther saw her service as a mission and carried it with devotion and love. Always devoted and dedicated, devoted herself to increasing the strength of the IDF and nurturing its spirit, while the welfare of the State was in front of her eyes … The anniversary of the fall of my husband and her children produced a film of about 20 minutes “A Voice from the Sky – Pictures from the Life of the Mother and the Wife We Keep in Our Hearts Forever.” In the film, in the background of quiet Hebrew songs, a series of photographs from Etty’s life, from her childhood and youth, through her career, .
