Son of Aharon and Sarah. He was born in 1927 in Baghdad. Where he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he worked in the Egyptian airline company, as the public relations representative of the company. Through an immigrant camp in Iran, and in 1950 she came to Israel and settled in Moshav Beit Ezra. At first they lived in tents, suffered many hardships, and built their own homes. In the same period, Salem married Rachel and the two began to build the family farm. Salem specialized mainly in tree-growing – Netta Pardes and other fruit trees, and also cultivated a livestock farm for fattening. In the middle of December 1950, Salem was drafted into the IDF, where he fulfilled his military duty, despite his relatively old age, and was discharged with the rank of corporal.In 1951, his first daughter, Tikva, was born. He was devoted to the family, sent his children to study even when the economic situation was very difficult and the agriculture needed helpful working hands.The Salem family was known in the moshav as an idyllic family, the house was open to all-in, and many guests visited His second great love was the moshav’s common grove, which planted it and treated it for 20 years, treating it like a baby He invested much thought and work in the development of the orchard, which served as an important source of income for the moshav, and often came from neighboring moshavim to hear good advice in the field of citrus orchards. When his annual reserve duty came, he had to wear a uniform, and before the Sinai Campaign he was called for a squad commanders’ course, and together with the graduates took part in the battles. In the course of his military service, he also took a course in a machine-gun non-commissioned officer and a noncommissioned sergeant, and took part in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. – In uniform. I served in the permanent army; The daughter, Gila, was about to be released from service; The son, Wise, just enlisted; And Avi was in reserve service – you just had to look at him, how proud he was. “In September 1976, he volunteered for a special reserve service at the Lachish District Headquarters, and on September 14, 1976, he fell in the line of duty. In the letter to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Salem was a dear man, an honest man who was comfortable and loving people. He did no harm to anyone. He liked to help all those who approached him, and everyone loved him. He was one of the security leaders in the Yishuv, and he did his last work on a volunteer basis. Salem was one of our good professionals, he learned this in a series of courses, and he knew the importance of weapons and training for our security and our existence. He knew that we did not choose to have a weapon, but in order to defend ourselves, we must know how to hold arms – something we could not do in the diaspora, where Jews were killed without being able to defend themselves. ” Divide once a year on Independence Day.
