Ashkenazi, Chaim

Ben Rivka and Israel. He was born on January 6, 1958 in Rehovot. Until the age of nine, he lived with his family in Ness Ziona, and then the family moved to Eilat. In Eilat he studied life at Arava Elementary School and continued at the Eilat Comprehensive High School. After graduating from high school Haim continued and studied for another year at the naval officers’ school in Acre. Haim loved reading books – and at the same time he did a lot of sports and was a soccer goalkeeper in the Hapoel youth team in Eilat. Haim also loved picnics: to go out with family and friends to various places in the countryside and to do “crazy life,” as he puts it. Haim was drafted into the IDF in November 1975 and served in the Ordnance Corps, and was very fond of everything, full of energy, joie de vivre and humor, and when he was discharged from the army in 1978, , And the family relocated to Rishon Letzion after serving for several years in the reserves in Eilat, and after not finding a permanent job, Haim moved to serve in the career army in Eilat as a car mechanic, where he was promoted to the rank of sergeant-sergeant on November 25, 1990 ) Fell in battle on the southern border, when he and his friends encountered a terrorist who crossed the border in the area of ​​Mount Uziyahu. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. Left a wife, three children – Oren, Israel Ward, parents and four brothers – Itzik, Eli, Moti and Shai. In a letter to the family, the defense minister said: “Haim was a very devoted soldier, with a very professional, diligent, very social profession. The Jewish student organization in Rome commemorated Chaim’s planting a tree in one of the forests of the Jewish National Fund.