fbpx
Arroyati, Isaac (Izzy)

Arroyati, Isaac (Izzy)


Yitzhak, son of Sara and Jacque, was born on 26.11.1937 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1949. In Israel, he attended elementary school at the Ben-Shemen Institute and graduated from the Municipal High School in Tel Aviv. Even as a child in his hometown of Bulgaria, he excelled in his studies in the real professions. He was also a good student in the schools in Israel and loved both the teachers and his friends. He was always willing to help a friend who had a hard time studying and was active and involved in social life in his place of residence. He was a sports enthusiast and worked to promote physical training. Indeed, when he was in the eighth grade, he received a certificate of excellence from the Department of Physical Education in the Ministry of Education. As an alert and wide-eyed boy, he had various hobbies, including stamp collecting, for which he devoted a lot of time and thought. He was also active in the Gadna and completed a course for instructors for Gadna.
was drafted into the IDF in mid-August 1956 and assigned to the Artillery Corps. During his service, he completed various courses, rose to the rank of lieutenant. He participated in the Qalqiliya and Kadesh operations, in which he fought among Abu-Agila as an artillery officer. After he was discharged from the regular military service, Yitzhak studied at the Technion in Haifa and finished as a building engineer, working as an engineer in a construction planning company and eventually becoming the engineer of the Ra’anana Council. During his activity as an engineer, he participated in the planning of a residential neighborhood in Jerusalem, built kindergartens and schools in the cities of the Sharon and the Gaza Strip, and specialized in building bridges throughout the country. From the south to the Lebanese border. During the War of Attrition, he fought in the Jordan Valley. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yitzhak served as a liaison officer to the UN forces in Rome, in northern Sinai, on October 10, 1973. Yitzhak was killed in an Egyptian air raid on the Romani camp. In the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife and two sons, parents and a sister, and after his fall was promoted to the rank of Captain,

Skip to content