Avital (Abutbul), Haim-Victor

Chaim, son of Dinah and Shlomo, was born on 14.4.1950 in Jerusalem. When he was very young, his family moved to Tel Aviv, where he spent his childhood and completed elementary and high school. Haim was a handsome boy. His two big eyes expressed a thirst for knowledge and curiosity to know the world. From his youth he managed more in love than in hatred. He was quiet and kind. It is no wonder that he has acquired many friends and friends, whose memory does not please them. His childhood friend, Avi, talks about their childhood years: “Haim and I were the founders of our neighborhood, and once a neighborhood was a concept, we fought many wars with children from other neighborhoods. We have always been preparing ourselves, and we have taught many things over the years of our friendship. ” Haim loved people, helped them and participated in their lives. There was a measure of the listener, the receiver and the learner. People asked for his girlfriend and opened their hearts to him. Life was especially loved by the Yaffa sex. Girls were attracted to him by the beauty of his looks, his modesty, his honesty and his goodness, which created a fine fusion of both inner and outer beauty. Chaim was very attached to his family. He recognized the value of the elements that the warm and loving house had given him. The mitzvah of honoring a father was a great privilege and a way for him to express his appreciation and gratitude to his parents. His parents took a lot of satisfaction from him. He was a diligent and brilliant student, and was especially interested in studying the real professions. His teachers respected him as a student, his friends loved him as a man and his parents were Simcha with him. He was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1968 and assigned to the armored corps. After basic training, he underwent a basic training course in the armored corps and was trained as a tank gunner. He was a good soldier and an excellent gunner. After training, in which he excelled in his injuries, he was awarded the rank of battalion commander in the battalion communications network, and was sent to a tank commander’s course and completed it with honors, and even when he was commander, he continued his good relations with the people. Moshe Shaked, Haim’s friend from the War of Attrition, relates: “The army benefited from Haim’s talents. He was an outstanding gunner. We sat in the ditch during the War of Attrition. We became brothers in arms, brothers without exaggeration. Even in those difficult days, he did not lose a life of his proper manner, never raised his voice and was always generous. I remember when I had to return from vacation to that hell, I went back almost happily, because I went back to good friends – and the best of friends was life. Thanks to him, I was relieved of the burden of those days … Haim was the living spirit of the group, which began its regular service in the War of Attrition, at his initiative and during his stay, we held a joint meeting at his home and arranged to meet again a year later. In the second meeting, which took place after the Yom Kippur War, Chaim was absent. But his memory is not absent. “After completing his military service, he enrolled in the Technion, passed the entrance examinations and began to study with enthusiasm and dedication as usual.had spent two years studying mechanical engineering before the outbreak of the war. The draft was sent to his home, and the crews were assembled quickly and Haim headed for the Suez Canal on October 9, 1973. On his way to battle near the “machine,” the tank, from which he was killed, Who lived in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery and left behind his parents, brother and brotherA. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. His parents established a scholarship fund in his honor to commemorate him.