Chazan, Shimon
Son of Aliza and David. Shimon was born in Morocco on October 28, 1957. He was the brother of four, and immigrated to Israel in 1963. He grew up in Ma’alot and attended a religious high school. He enlisted in regular service in the Golani Brigade, Magen David, and then enlisted in the Border Police in January 1981 and was stationed in the north, where he was transferred to the Kach Fortress, Company C. Shimon was a quiet, kind man. He loved sports and studies, was an outstanding student and even accepted to study at the University of Haifa. He liked to help, and his hobby was mainly football. Shimon married four months before his fall. Staff Sergeant Shimon fell while serving in Lebanon in the first Tsur disaster. On the morning of the 25th of Kislev 5743 (11.11.1982), during the Peace for Galilee War, an explosion occurred in a building in the city of Tzur, home to the Israeli military government and many IDF forces, and about one hundred people were killed, including seventy-six members of the Israeli security force. Shimon was twenty-five years old when he died, and was buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, leaving a pregnant wife in Ma’alot. His name is memorialized on a Wall in the Yad LeBanim building in Nahariya.