Cohen, Esther (‘Etty’)

Daughter of Samuel and Leah. She was born on July 20, 1954 in Kibbutz Amiad. Two years later she left the kibbutz with her parents, and they moved to Rosh Pina. Esther studied at the Vilkomitz Elementary School in Rosh Pina, and later completed her studies at the high school in Safed, and was an excellent student, loved by her teachers and friends, and always showed understanding to others and helped those who approached her, whether by advice or by action She was a sports fan from an early age and excelled in the fencing industry and won the Israel Women’s Championship in 1970. She was only 16 years old and Esther was preparing to study at the Kibbutzim College of Physical Education Teachers’ Track, a combination of her love for people , And especially her children, and her great love for the sport Esther was drafted into the IDF in early October 1972, after basic training Seka served as an officer in the army in the north of the country. She had done her job well, successfully replaced, an officer who had fallen ill and was recommended for an officer’s course. She completed the course at the end of August 1973 and was assigned as a liaison officer in a reserve soldiers’ battalion. During the Yom Kippur War she made sure to visit the soldiers of the battalion, to hear their requests and their needs, and to call on their behalf to the house in order to calm their families. On Thursday, 26.4.1974, when she was on a tour to update the responses of reservists to the possibility of mobilization and a state of alert, she turned into a commando, and was severely injured and died on the way to the hospital. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “Etty served in the unit and was discovered as a person who knows how to take care of people and help them. Despite her young age, she found a common language with older reservists. “Friends’ comments on her image and her memory were presented in a memorial booklet,” They Were … “, which was published by the Rosh Pina Council for the Land of Israel.