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Chaikov, Sasha (Alexander)

Chaikov, Sasha (Alexander)

Sasha, son of Rita and Victor Chaikov, was born in 1963 in Ukraine. When he was six years old, Sasha landed at son of-Gurion Airport. During his first year, Sasha lived with his grandmother in the son of Dor neighborhood near Haifa University. In 1981 he joined the 202nd Battalion of the Division and after a few months he went with the battalion to fight in the Lebanon war. As a combat medic, Sasha saved lives and took wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Sasha volunteered in MDA (Magen David Adom) because he was close to the medical profession. At the end of a decade, Sasha left the Intelligence Corps, was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and took command of the Shomron District Coordination and Liaison Unit. Colonel Sasha Haikov fell in the line of duty when he died of colon cancer on 29 May 2009. He was forty-six when he fell. He was laid to rest in the Misgav cemetery, leaving a wife and three children.

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