Cohen , Shlomo (Said)

Son of Gavriel was purity and Sarah. He was born on the 26th of Sivan 5713 (26.5.1953) in Biruzhard in Persia. In early January 1969, he immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah. For nine years Shlomo managed to buy knowledge in his hometown and completed his elementary studies. During those years he dreamed of immigrating to Eretz Israel. He was almost the only one among his fellow Jews who then conceived this idea and strove tirelessly to realize it. He made people think of his idea among his friends too. “Only those who immigrate to Israel – he is a Zionist,” he preached to his people. At the age of 16 he was able to fulfill the vow he had made for himself and immigrated to the homeland. He also infected his family with his Zionist enthusiasm, and later on they also followed him to Eretz Israel and settled in Rishon Letzion. Shlomo studied for two years in an institution of the Youth Aliyah in Kfar Batya, well adapted himself to the Hebrew language and adapted to the country. While he was diligent and successful in his studies, he continued to study at the Ariel high school in Rishon Letzion, where he completed his 11th grade, where he obtained his matriculation certificate with the help of Mishlev High School in Tel Aviv. In the beginning of August 1972, Shlomo began training for the infantry corps and volunteered for the Golani Brigade, after which he underwent a first-rank course and completed the rank of corporal. Yom Kippur War During the War of Attrition, Shlomo and his friends defended the Tel-Antar outpost in the Syrian enclave, which was brutally shelled. On the eve of Shavuot, on 26.5.1974, a Syrian shell hit a bunker directly – the bunker collapsed under it, and Shlomo was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Your son Shlomo fell in the War of Attrition in the enclave of the Golan … This is the continuation of the hardest of Israel’s wars … The Syrians, who left in October to destroy the people of Israel, did not accept their failure and defeat, A method of daily shelling … This type of combat requires us to be under enemy fire often and to prevent any achievement from it … Your son Shlomo understood the risk of this and the great responsibility, and fulfilled what was imposed on him quietly, responsibly and with dedication. ” The family donated a Torah scroll in his memory.