Bilia, Yaakov (“Coco”)

Son of Moshe and her meal. He was born in the city of Rabat, the capital of Morocco, in 1941. He immigrated to Israel in 1956, during the Sinai Campaign, together with his parents, and was in a transit camp in the Jerusalem corridor. He went to the kibbutz and from there went to study at Solel Boneh in Jerusalem, and after six months he began to work as a stone stonemason and was drafted into the IDF in May 1959. After leaving the army, he married and moved to Petah Tikva (close to his wife’s parents) and began working at the tire factory in Kiryat Aryeh. He was also liked by his co-workers at the factory and was admired by the factory management. He was kind, noble, devoted to his family and friends, and pleasant. At home, in the room and in the neighborhood, his Lev laughter was always echoing his intense love for life. “If there is a war, I will go first to volunteer for the army, in case they do not call me … for the sake of the homeland and for the sake of peace I will go.” Was one of the first recruits. “I ask you to take care of yourself and the girls because I do not know if I will come back, we have no choice, but be sure that we are few against many,” he said. . “This was his last request and while fulfilling his duties at the base of Kfar Sirkin on the first day of the battles, he fell on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), when the enemy attacked the base. left a wife and three daughters, the eldest of whom had been over four years dead. Was buried in the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In “Yesodot,” the organ of the workers’ union, his memory was raised.