Avitan, Yaakov

Yaakov, son of Moshe and Hasiba Avitan, was born in April 1947 in Casablanca, Morocco, and he immigrated to Israel in 1955. In May 1965, he joined the army in order to fulfill his duty to his country and his people. When the Six-Day War broke out, he served as a battalion commander’s runner, and on the fifth day of the battles, 1 Sivan (9.6.1967), Yaakov fell in battle on the Golan Heights in Tel-el-Fakhr. He was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.