Barbi, Herzl-Eliyahu (Eli)
Herzl (Eliahu), son of Miriam and Mordechai, was born on February 12, 1953, in Tiberias and studied at the Yavne’el religious elementary school near Tiberias and then moved to the Bnei Akiva high school in the village View. Herzl was an outstanding student in elementary school and his teachers always presented him as an example of a diligent student. Among his friends was loved and accepted. One of the most striking features of his character was his willingness to help and always help others. He was looking for friends who needed help and felt tremendous satisfaction when she gave him the opportunity to help them. During his high school years, Herzl devoted many hours to learning and memorizing his lessons at home, telling his parents that he “wanted to be even more diligent.” Every time his mother came to a parents’ meeting at Kfar Haroeh, Herzl’s educator called him, and in the presence of his mother he said: “I really enjoy seeing you learn so diligently and diligently as your son …” The hobby that Herzl spent many hours was collecting stamps. He bought a new guitar for the collection, sold his old textbooks, and found great satisfaction in writing essays, and shortly before his fall, he bought a guitar and began to work on it. To the IDF at the beginning of February 1972 and was assigned to the Armored Corps. After basic training, he was sent to the Armored Corps School, where he was trained as a tank commander. His commanders saw him as a responsible soldier, disciplined and resourceful, and so his rise to the ranks was rapid. During the Yom Kippur War, Herzl participated in armored battles that took place in Sinai. During one of the battles he was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. On October 20, 1973, died of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. The commander of the unit in which Herzl did most of his military service, wrote to the bereaved family: “We, the commanders of the unit and its soldiers, who have been privileged to meet your son, bear his memory in silence and in holy anxiety.” Herzl’s parents commemorated his memory by building a hall in his name in the “Yehezkel HaNavi” synagogue in Kiryat Ata.
