Butbul, Jacob

Son of Hannah and Armond. Jacob was born on February 3, 1960. He was a first-born son of his parents from Morocco and attended the Rogozin elementary school and the ORT high school in Kiryat Gat, where he joined the army and served in the Israel Air Force. Yaakov married Shula and over the years they had three children: Uzi, Dana and Amiram, “he took care of everything we needed, the family was at the top of his concern and he worked days and nights so we would not miss anything.” , And two years later decided to enlist in the police. “My brother said that he wanted to join, so I gave him up,” said brother Shimon, who served in the unit for four and a half years until his death. “Yaakov was very smiling, he was “On March 10, 1988, Sergeant Yaakov was killed in an accident on the Nir Banim road, while riding the motorcycle of the police in the course of his duty, Encountered a parked vehicle of the Public Works Department. Jacob was twenty-eight years old when he fell. He was buried in the cemetery in Kiryat Gat. Survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter, parents and seven brothers and sisters.