Bitan, Shimon

Son of Amos and Natzaria. He was born on April 17, 1939 in the city of Zwara, in Tripoli. Where he attended an elementary school in the Italian language, that education was compulsory; He devoted his afternoon hours to study at the Beit Midrash in a place called Talmud Torah. Immigrated to Israel in 1949. He fell in the line of duty on the 16th of Av 5718 (2.8.1958) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. His parents wrote a Torah scroll in his memory and donated it to the Shikun-Shomron synagogue in Netanya; They also purchased holy books in his name. On two parokhot in the Holy Temple where his name is engraved.