Brot, Abraham (“Avi”)
Son of Zeev and Tzipora. He was born on November 2, 1947 in Haifa and studied at the Gordon Elementary School and at the vocational high school in Kiryat Haim. My father was an exemplary son of his parents, an admired brother and a loyal friend of all. From childhood, he had excelled in kindness, manners, and good humor and good-naturedness. He was always kind and thanks to his kindness he had many friends. He was very alert and interested in sports. Politics, contemporary literature, and most of all military affairs. Avi was drafted into the IDF in August 1965 and volunteered to serve in the paratroopers, serving as a soldier and as a commander and an officer in his service. To the artillery battalion, where he was given a battery command, the soldiers admired him, his fellow officers loved him, and his commanders prophesied him a bright future: On May 4, 1969, Avraham fell while serving in the military cemetery in Haifa. , To whom he was devoted, and after which his commander sent a letter of condolences to his family, in which he wrote: “I served as the commander of Avi who From joining the Army until graduation platoon commander within the framework of the paratroopers. I remember him more than anything when he sat upright, willing to confess to what he had done and to receive a punishment that I had imposed on him. My father was a soldier in the full sense of the word. He often challenged various things and when I stood up to Avi I knew that my authority as commander was not enough, but that I had to prove myself and my justice with all my orders and words. Helping a friend – – – and volunteering for difficult things were understandable and natural – and for that he was so loved by his friends and commanders. He had many difficulties. It was hard for him to adapt to basic training, to the framework of military discipline, and to the enormous physical and mental requirements required of a paratrooper. But his perseverance and stubbornness had advanced him above these difficulties-and Avi had become one of the best soldiers I knew during my service. His military performance would testify to the dedication of a soldier prepared for everything he is charged with the thought of a man who thinks about his actions. I was not with Avi during his tenure as an officer, but I am sure that if he had imparted the values that he had, he could ‘do’ good soldiers, both as military men and as human beings. “
