Cabartz, Yitzhak

Son of Hinda and Eliezer. Yitzhak was born on December 25, 1946 in Kfar Sava, his parents immigrated from Vilna, the father immigrated in 1925, and the mother in 1934. They were pioneers who fulfilled the dream of immigration and the building of the country, and taught their children to love the people and the homeland. In 1978, he joined the Border Police and began serving as the security coordinator of Kibbutz Manara. In 2000, following the IDF’s withdrawal from Lebanon, Yitzhak began to build the new IDF fortifications on the Lebanese border. By contractors and foreign workers who lived in the kibbutz, including a former Shin Bet security service man who was convicted of criminal offenses, he befriended members of the kibbutz and became a regular visitor. On March 15, 2001, this man murdered Yitzhak in the back of his neck, robbed the arms storehouse and sold the weapons to the enemy for money, in cooperation with hostile elements. Sergeant First Sergeant Yitzhak fell during his service. Fifty-four years old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in his hometown of Kfar Sava. He left a loving family.