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Ben-Nun, Abraham

Ben-Nun, Abraham


Son of Boko and Bea. He was born on February 20, 1934, in Perjik, Bulgaria, after graduating from an elementary school in Bulgaria at the end of 1948. In Tel Aviv, he immigrated to Israel with Avraham, where he studied at the Shalva high school. In July 1953, after completing his regular service, the Sinai Campaign broke out. Then he would go to reserve duty. He was active, active, and active throughout the territories, out of devotion and devotion – both in the army and in his civilian life. Soldiers in the regular army who were in contact with his unit were assured that they had paternal help in all its forms, and his comrades in the army were like the eldest brother. After the Sinai Campaign, he worked for Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv and was chairman of the Bank’s workers’ committee. In this capacity, he managed to create good and correct relations with management and employees. He studied at the Hebrew University of Tel Aviv’s Graduate School of Social Sciences, Economics and Statistics. He was loved and respected for all the circles he came with in touch. They admired and appreciated him for having found him to be honest and pleasant, thoughtful and thoughtful. According to his explanations and requests, he would be treated with seriousness, respect and respect. Through the power of his personality, he managed to preserve the affairs of all the factors whose cooperation greatly determines the efficiency of the work of the institution in which he worked and the society in which he worked, and that he invested his best energies and energy in them. In the banking sector, he attained a distinguished position within the framework of the National Bank of Israel. As mentioned, between war and war he would go to reserve duty. At the outbreak of the Six-Day War called to reserve duty and was always an efficient and dedicated soldier. In his modesty he knew how to impose authority in silence. He was again called up for active duty. On the 29th of Adar, 5728 (March 29, 1968), when he was in a field in the Jordan Valley, in an excavation, with the upper part of his body exposed during a Jordanian bombardment, a shell hit him and killed him. He left a wife, a daughter and a son named after him. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. The commander of his unit wrote, among other things, his letter of condolence to his wife: “Your dear husband served as a model for his subordinates and commanders in his life and death – an example of his devotion and loyalty to his family, the IDF and the State, exemplified by his quiet and modest manner, The National Committee of the National Bank, which was one of its pillars, in cooperation with the Sports Committee, decided to commemorate him by organizing a football tournament and handing a trophy in his name. The book “Divrei Hakhamim” by Reuven Alkalai was dedicated to his memory Command chief artillery officer raised his memory. Immediately after falls National Bank employees took Israel newsletter dedicated to him, and then in his memory, a special booklet.

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