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Bracha, Isaac

Bracha, Isaac


Born in 1944 in Istanbul, Turkey, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 5 C. The family lived in south Tel Aviv, and Itzik (Isaac) attended elementary school in Selma, and was a friendly and cheerful child. When he reached the age of 17, he began to work with his father in the building, and he was a diligent and talented worker who loved hard work and invested all his energy in it. And was released from the army, but after the Yom Kippur War, when he was already married and the father of three children, Zur felt He was a soldier with a smiling, lively, Simcha face, who knows how to walk with anyone and adapt to every situation. His friend called him “a local hero, anonymous.” He was not speechless and did not look like a hero, because of his modesty and quiet manner, but when he needed to, he was revealed in full force. In the Peace for Galilee War, he was once caught in a situation where many vehicles were defective. Even before they were deployed in the field, he began to repair the vehicles with tremendous vigor, without obtaining official permission. His goal was to repair more and more tools, so that they would return to their activities. Itzik was well versed in all technical issues. He knew how to work in electricity, carpentry, painting and building. He renovated his house with his own hands. He loved to be in the family, and he would spend time with her at picnics and picnics all over the country. He was enterprising and dedicated to his family, and he worked hard to satisfy all their needs. Itzik worked in a mechanical factory of Tadiran, and there they all recognized him as a Simcha and Simcha person. His commander, who knew him only a short time, wrote to his family that from a brief meeting before his fall, he was impressed that “a reservist with faith, a man who performs a loyal role, is a unique figure, whom we rarely meet.” Yitzhak died on the ninth day of Sivan 5743 (21.5.1983), while serving in the Peace for Galilee War, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Holon, where he died at the age of 39. He left behind a wife, three children,

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