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Carol, Arieh and Jacob

Carol, Arieh and Jacob


Son of Shifra and Yehuda was born in Tel Aviv on 19 November 1963. Arieh’s childhood years were spent in the atmosphere of a warm family that is part of the religious stream, from childhood to the end of the ” He studied at the Dizengoff Elementary School and later moved to the Zeitlin High School, where he completed his matriculation exams in a real-physical yeshiva trend, ostensibly a completely ordinary life, characteristic of a Tel Avivian, wearing a knitted skullcap, All the routine on the track, Aryeh knew how to express his uniqueness at every stage of his growth from a soft boy, and he was gifted with a solid choice that stood in his mind, among others he was very musical and played clarinet Youth of the Municipality of Tel Aviv. As an adult learn to play the guitar. Had a special affection for animals. Leo was full of joie de vivre and vitality that never expires. The usual cries of his mouth was: “Do not waste a single moment of life! When Aryeh would come to the Bnei Akiva branch or meet with the guys, like a new spirit that began to blow, a kind of youthfulness and freshness, with a lot of energy, not to dwell on The yeast … along with that joy, also knew how to put a limit to the acts of prank, to weigh things seriously, and to always adhere to truth, justice and integrity.To get the truth out of the light he did not hesitate to fight with all his might, When he reached the United States, family members tried to seduce him with material temptations so that he would remain, but he responded with a forgiving smile, In a telephone conversation to the country whose recruitment was earlier, he immediately returned to Israel. When he enlisted in the IDF, it was natural for him to volunteer for an elite unit, but at first he thought of the naval commando, but since he had never felt like a fish in the water, he joined the ranks of the paratroopers. To live permanently on the sturdy back of the Tel Aviv guy, a journey that began with a parachute and continued with a continuous walk of 87 kilometers with all the equipment on his back was a difficult test, but not as Aryeh. He also loaded the stretcher on his back, and after a day greeted his parents, who were waiting for him at the end, with a Simcha smile. His wars for justice took on a stronger tone in his regular service. Any wrong, even the slightest, that became one of his friends immediately aroused his sensitive sense of justice, whether his person was a simple commander or the battalion commander himself. On January 20, 1983, Arieh was seriously injured in a training accident in the Golan Heights and fought for six days. He died at the hospital on January 26, 1983, and was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, near the grave of his uncle Yaakov Karol, after whom he was killed in the battle for the liberation of the Faluja pocket during the War of Independence. The commander of his unit wrote in a letter of condolence to his family: “Aryeh caught my attention by seeing him invest and demonstrate a high level of training, as a lieutenant in his department. Beyond the loss to the family, the battalion and the IDF lost an outstanding soldier”

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