Cohen, Matzliach

Their son was the firstborn of Chayyim (HaCohen) and Na’ima. He was born on March 24, 1956, in Jerusalem. Succeeds in the size of religion and tradition. Despite the difficult living conditions in the Talpiot transit camp, where the family lived in its early years in Israel, he grew up as a wonderful child, to the delight of his parents and relatives. He studied at the Hameiri religious public school in Jerusalem and, if he had the qualifications for theoretical studies, decided to continue studying in a vocational school, so he used to say, to help his parents in the household agriculture and to compensate them for the trouble they had invested in raising and educating him. Matzliach graduated from the Kennedy Ort vocational high school in the mechanics program, he had a gold hand, he repaired all that was needed for repairs at home, from plumbing to electrical appliances. He was ready to help even before he was asked, and during his studies he was a member of the school’s soccer team and participated in all the Gadna activities. Together with his friends and members of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement, Matzliach established the Vered nucleus, which was supposed to settle in the Netzarim Nahal settlement in 1948. Matzliach was drafted into the IDF in mid-January 1975 and volunteered for Nahal. He was always ready to help and replace a friend on a stretcher journey, and his humor helped overcome many difficulties: After basic training, he was sent to Kibbutz Shoval and from there to Netzarim, where he succeeded in spreading the wilderness and developing the settlement. They gave him the love of his friends and the appreciation of his commanders, even when the core was at Kibbutz Shoval, where he studied And social cohesion, it was successful that he prepared the program for the Sabbath eve parties, and his room, which the Greek music did not cease to burst out of, became the center of social life On the 27th of Tishrei 5736 (October 2, 1975) – In the letter of condolences to the family, his commander wrote: “Mazliah was a beloved and beloved of his comrades and commanders, devoted and responsible, and every task he was assigned was filled with precision and will. Always with his playful smile and thin sense of humor that never left him. ” His family donated a Torah scroll to the Sha’arei Zion Synagogue in Jerusalem; His comrades in the nucleus took out a memorial booklet.