Carmeli, Haim

Ben Dvora and Yitzhak Kojukro. Chaim was born in Romania on May 8, 1939. He immigrated to Israel in 1950, after World War, and grew up in Tirat Carmel, in immigrant camps. Haim finished high school in Tirat Carmel, enlisted in the army and served as a car mechanic. During his service he participated in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. After his discharge from the army Haim was recruited to the police. He took a police course in Shfaram. When he was twenty-six, Chaim married Marianna. They lived in Nahariya and brought two children to the world – Doron and Yariv. Haim was a loyal family man, a patient, honest, sensitive and diligent man. On December 17, 1979, a sergeant was killed while serving in the traffic police of the Northern District, while he was standing at a routine inspection checkpoint on the Acre-Safed road, and a vehicle that did not obey the traffic laws hit him. He was forty years old. He was buried in the cemetery in Nahariya.