Cohen, Shlomo

Son of Uri and Annie. He was born on June 12, 1936 in the city of Arnhem, in the Netherlands. His family was very well-off in the Netherlands but at the outbreak of World War II he left his home and found a hiding place in the home of good-hearted Christians who had adopted him throughout the war. He did not see his parents again because they were killed by the Nazis and when he reached the age of 12 he immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah to Kfar Yedidya, where he was adopted by a local peasant family and found a warm spot. Bialik arrived at the kibbutz youth group Netzer Sireni, where he lived after graduating from high school, and volunteered for the paratroopers. He participated in several reprisals and in the Sinai Campaign and was among the plungers in the Mitla Pass. After his release from the army he returned to Kfar Yedidya, and from there to Safed. And from there, to Haifa, this is the last stop in his wandering life. In spite of the life of wandering and wandering from place to place he was free of complications, he was not bitter, he always smiled and did not harbor hostility toward anyone. He was hardworking and did not like idleness; He worked as a tractor operator, and from his love of sports he taught swimming and was also a lifeguard. In the last three years of his life he was a clerk at Bank Leumi Le-Israel and in all his occupations he was serious and did his job to the satisfaction of the employers. Wherever he arrived, he adjusted to life without any barriers. Everyone loved him for the qualities of his soul. From time to time he would go to reserve duty and when he was offered to leave the paratroopers he refused to do so. In the Six Day War called to reserve duty and on the 28th of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), the third day of the battles, fell from a direct shell hit in the courtyard of the monastery opposite the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. Lay a wife and child; When he fell, his wife was pregnant. A few hours before, he managed to write a letter to the house saying, “The first round is over. – and he did not know tranquility that for him it was the last round. For the past year, a competition has been held in the name of the Table Tennis Championship for the handicapped at the Spivak Club in Ramat Gan. In the book “Marinas Gabro” published by the Paratroopers Headquarters was devoted a page to his history and description of his last battle.