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Berestling, Zvi (“Zvika”)

Berestling, Zvi (“Zvika”)


Son of Haim and Adina. He was born on August 4, 1951, in Bucharest, Romania. When Zvi was seven and a half years old, the family immigrated to Israel and he was with her. He attended the son of Zvi School and the Arlozorov School in Ashkelon. He then attended the Tager High School in Afridar (Ashkelon). In a list written by his teacher and teacher at the high school, he noted that Zvi knew how to make decisions and express his opinions without hesitation. “The class,” she writes in her list, “is not the place where a teacher comes to the actual recognition of his students, even though the personality of each student emerges even through the formal barriers that exist between teacher and student. And others are impatient with the slowness or hesitation of their classmates, some of whom are tolerant of others while others are totally focused on their goals, and some are always willing to lend a helping hand to the spirit of the group. Which pulsates them, brings the whole class together into a cohesive unit The role of the educator is to instruct the problematic child so that he will be responsible and pay attention to others, but these efforts would become futile if there were no students in the class like Zvi, who do not really need their teachers. For its own ends. ” The teacher continues, “Zvi always protected the deprived in his quiet and confident way.” She concludes her list of Zvi: “Zvi’s future was very short and I can not accompany him on his way to adulthood, so I will always be remembered as a young man walking forward, his head up and paving the way for others who follow him.” When Tzvi was in fifth grade he joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement. From 10th to 12th grade, he was a group leader, despite the high school load, as a high school student who participated in all the sports competitions and was also one of the best athletes and represented the school in regional competitions. For his achievements in these competitions. His main hobby was trips and trips, whose purpose was to get to know the country. In addition to trips within the framework of the movement and the school, he organized various trips on his own initiative and during the trips he dealt extensively with photography. He spent a lot of time teaching and feeling his direct attitude toward people of all kinds. From childhood he excelled in handwork, embroidery, and engraving in copper, and spent many hours working on olive and lemon trees. Zvi played an important role during the Six-Day War. He was a 10th grade student and did not apply to the National Service. During the war, the hospital was noisy with helicopters and Zvi spent his nights with the wounded who were brought from the front; He helped to carry them, helped with them. On the day he continued his studies and his eyes closed on their own. But immediately after graduation he would return to the hospital and the wounded. As the doctor later testified, Tzvi’s help was very vital. The gay deer became an adult; It was a sad maturity, for he saw death with his own eyes. He would then visit the parents of the fallen friends and tell them about the last moments of their sons; He tried to console them. His mother wanted to help him with it, but he replied that it was men’s work, for he felt himself a man in every way. His silence was secret, a dark, strange silence. Zvi kept on his visits to the hospitals, and every soldier with the danger of death passed over Zvi, a tired but Simcha smile. But every soldier whose efforts to save him failed to succeed. At the end of October 1969, Zvi was drafted into the IDF and spent eight months in the kibbutz and this period was of importance to him, and for him this was the way to fulfill his mission in the best way and therefore gave up a tempting offer to travel to the United States For a year or so, as the emissary of the Zionist movement, to serve as a guide to the army First of all, because it was his first and absolute duty to the state, he completed his basic training as an outstanding company apprentice On 26.5.1971, He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Ashkelon.

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