Chen (Kahane), Shoshana (‘Shosh’)
Daughter of Kalman and Malka. She was born on 9 January 1935 in Haifa and completed her elementary and high school studies at the Bialik Gymnasium in Haifa, where she continued to study for two years at the instructors’ seminar. A course for commanders and a training course for shooting instructors, and became a counselor in the Gadna. She was active in a youth club in Lod and established a center that was one of the best in the country. During that same period, she studied at the Institute for Youth Counselors in Tel Aviv and after being discharged, after completing a year of compulsory military service, she took the teaching exams and was certified as a teacher. In 1950-1960, she worked as a gymnast in the Hadera High School and in Binyamina, where she worked as a sportsman, worked as a sportsman and worked as a counselor in the Maccabi movement and in the late 1950’s, In 1961, she was called to reserve duty to prepare the first command to guide African youth, and since she was fluent in several foreign languages she was asked to return to regular army service and she accepted the request. She served in many positions, held courses for foreign youth in the framework of the Gadna, served as a counselor and as a management officer, and in 1962 she was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and was sent to Uganda for a few months to instruct there on behalf of the IDF, To. In 1964 she married and a year later became a mother. At the end of her maternity leave, she returned to the service and served as a management officer in the newspaper Bamahane, with the rank of captain. From 1969 to 1971 served as Editorial and Publishing Officer at the Supreme Command. In 1974 he was promoted to Major, and in 1978 was promoted to lieutenant colonel. She was considered an excellent officer, and all her commanders always noted in their assessments her devotion, responsibility, her heartfelt attitude to others, her kindness and her kindness. During her service in the IDF, she made connections with commanders and functionaries in all branches of the army and the security establishment, and everyone regarded her as an officer and a man, and her employees saw her as a wise and responsible person who knew how to combine seriousness with humor and humor. And in 1974 she was appointed secretary of the Supreme Command in the Chief of Staff’s bureau and served her role with great efficiency and dedication. Her family says that she had special treatment for her family – husband, parents, children and many other relatives. She kept the tradition, and her home was strictly Kosher. Lighting candles on Saturday nights was obvious. A family Sabbath meal, which was an inescapable law, and the warm family relationship that so needed for the special domestic atmosphere were an integral part of her family unit. Despite her special role and despite the many hours she spent in her work, she did not forget the family. She admired and admired her parents’ home, which grew up in Hadar Hacarmel in Haifa. And Shosh’s special smile, which never left her face, was undoubtedly an inseparable part of that talent to make all the people around her Simcha and give them warmth and a feeling of love. On the 9th of Tevet 5739 (8.1.1979), Shoshana fell in her role, was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa and left behind a husband, son and daughter, parents, brother and sister In a letter of condolence to the family, Maj. Gen. (res.) Rafael Eitan: “I was Simcha to see with my own eyes how Simcha Shosh was recently, and that happiness was due to great satisfaction in your work and your family life. To commemorate her memory, her family set up a library in her name in the school she studied in her youth.
