He is the youngest son of his parents, Shalom and Ora. Born in 1939 in the city of Imran in Yemen, the father made every effort to educate his son to the Torah and fear of God, and the family immigrated to Israel in 1949. When he reached school age, he began studying at the Yesodei Torah school in Rosh Ha’ayin, After graduating from the Hanita group where he studied high school, his parents came and took him out, because they wanted a traditional and religious education for their son, and they took him to a yeshiva in Yehud, He spent several years and then moved to a large Yeshiva in Tel Aviv called Porat Yosef, where he continued his studies and excellence – and remained until August 1958 when he joined the IDF, And joined the Navy. And gradually ascended the ranks and became a sergeant. Participated in the Six-Day War. He first served in the “Rahab” and was later transferred to the “Tanin” and took part in the infiltration of the submarine into the enemy port. In addition to his work as a cook, of course, he was a diver who met all the submarine tests and knew her well and was ordained as a sniper in March 1961. He also passed a parachuting course in England and at the end He spent most of his vacations traveling home, to his wife at Rosh Ha’ayin, who works as a teacher in an elementary school in Pardes Hannah, and if he did not manage to travel from the base In Haifa he would spend his spare time in Haifa – not with his friends, but with the Bible. He was pleasant and was Simcha with his lot and contented himself with little. “It will be good,” he would answer a question; “Everything is fine,” he replied. “From my service in the submarine,” he once said, “my wife is satisfied – because I am satisfied.” “But the conditions are not very comfortable.” And one day he came across the offer to join the Dakar team in England – he accepted it willingly, and when he accepted the offer, all the staff rejoiced and signaled how much they loved them. The Dakar was his area of operation in the small kitchen, which served seventy people; The kitchen was not a square meter large, where Avraham planned the meals, cooked them, and divided them into portions. When asked whether it is not difficult for him to observe the mitzvot in this small kitchen as a single religious person, he replied: “Everywhere I can overcome it, I try to do everything possible.” Indeed, he admitted, “I hardly pray because I do not have time for that, but I keep kosher for kashrut.” Fourteen fifteen hours he worked in his small kitchen out of great devotion – and the work outside him (moving supplies from the harbor to the submarine) was at the expense of his free time and his own strength, without the help of a car or truck. Was of a soft and comfortable nature and therefore all his friends respected and loved him. He left for England, but he did not return, because when the submarine was on its way to the port, on the sea route between Gibraltar and Israel, the connection with it was suddenly cut off and never renewed; This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Avraham’s death, in the course of his duties, together with the rest, was 30 January 1968. Since Abraham was among the missing members of the submarine, a memorial monument was placed inside him in a memorial to the Dakar men in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In his letter of condolences to his parents, the commander of the navy writes about Avraham during his service in the “crocodile” who “visited” the enemy harbor once and that “thanks to his being the thirty-six righteous people, the submarine returned safely to its base.” He said that everyone loved him ” His Laws. “In his memory, two columns and lighting lamps were dedicated at the head of the” Dakar “Synagogue in Sderot. In the synagogue at the top of the eye hangs a giant chandelier MacAnd a marble plaque in his memory. The booklet “Face to Face” has been devoted to several pages that include his history and his picture. In Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker” a list was presented about Abraham and his picture. In the book “Maalot Giborim”, edited by Israel Erlich, several pages were dedicated to him. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.
