Cohen, Abraham

Son of Shlomo and Esther. The family originates from the exile of Spain, a family of rabbis and Torah scholars. Abraham was born on October 22, 1938, in the city of an air conditioner in Morocco, in the city where his father served as rabbi. Avraham studied in an elementary school there, and until the age of 17 he studied at the Yeshiva in Tangier, where his father’s home was strictly Jewish, as the home of a rabbi, and Abraham was brought up in accordance with Israeli tradition. Avraham loved the sea, where he spent his childhood and youth in the air-conditioned cities of Tangier, where he spent his free time on the beach and his family was settled in Katamon, where his father was appointed to the neighborhood rabbi, “I love the sea.” He studied at the Naval School in Haifa and from the first year excelled in his studies there, and when he completed them there was only one way: to the Navy. After graduating several courses, he was declared an outstanding student and presented to the President, together with all the outstanding cadets of the various corps, who encouraged him and was assigned to various courses which he successfully completed. The sea began with a series of courses for officers until Abraham reached the rank of lieutenant, when Avraham went to the Noga branch where he served for a short period after visiting the ship several times abroad. He spent most of his time in prayer, even during the courses on the sea, and in his pocket lay the “prayer of the road” that his father had given him before he went to study a yeshiva in Tangier. During the Six-Day War, he carried out various missions, and he had a great experience, but on October 21, 1967, the destroyer “Eilat” was sunk by Egyptian missiles in front of a Romanian beach in northern Sinai. His body was discovered because of the life belt that was connected to him, which caused his body to float on the surface of the water, leaving a wife and a little daughter who had not filled her for a year, exactly on the day that Abraham was laid to rest in his grave. The military on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem comes news that the family of Jacob, his younger brother, who loved the sea as his brother Abraham who served in the same destroyer influence, died in hospital as a result of the same banding. In “degrees Heroes” edited by Israel Ehrlich were devoted several pages in memory