Cohen, Yaakov-Yitzhak

Son of Yehuda HaKohen and Sarah. Born on April 23, 1950 in Haifa, he studied at the Weizman Elementary School in Acre, where he spent his childhood and adolescence, and joined the school’s school for the afternoon. He was always a member of the “Scouts” movement and went on trips and summer camps with his friends in the movement, and was always willing to help others and completed a first aid course at Magen David Adom and participated in various activities of the organization, Blood, and first aid, and the good of the family was always a guiding light for him Know that you can trust and be assisted by some wise advice. Director of the book he wrote after the fall, the rest of the words “meek and humble in everything he was a good student and hard-working, not for score studied, but to add information and therefore was interested in many areas. He was very active in the company of the children, without any desire to control them, and was therefore very popular with them. He was always willing to help others, and any role he was assigned was filled with full responsibility. The first was always among the volunteers to perform roles and thus served as a positive example to his friends. . . “After graduating from elementary school, he moved to Jerusalem to study law and graduated with honors from the Bezeq School of Communications, and was certified as an electronics technician, and was very interested in the profession and served as a volunteer at the post office in Acre. To the IDF in August 1968 and was assigned to the Signal Corps. In the Signal Corps he passed many professional courses and passed professional examinations. However, he was very interested in flying and was a subscriber to the Israel Air Force magazine. When he enlisted in the army, he successfully passed the pilots’ course tests, but he did not start the course itself. He said he wanted to check his suitability to the high requirements of the course. He greatly loved the profession he had studied and prepared to continue his studies at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa. No one knew what he was doing in the army. Because he never told a thing. He used to take upon himself difficulties that required responsibility, dedication and thoroughness. He participated in the raid on the island of Shadwan, and after successfully completing his part in this raid, he fell in the line of duty during the rescue of the Ammunition Truck in Eilat on the 24 th of January 1970. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote, among other things: “A cheerful young man who, like many others, went out to serve his homeland and sacrificed his most precious life on the altar of his service.” One of his comrades wrote in his memory: “You were a symbol of life and a source of life in every situation and in every atmosphere, and it is precisely you who harassed death … We loved you and the whole world will not be able to fill the gap that was opened with our people. Live and radiate from the spirit that you have surrounded around you and your friends while you are with us. ” His name was immortalized in the book “Yizkor” by the residents of the town of Poltosk, in the chapter “The Fighters and the Fallen”; His name was also immortalized in the memorial plaque of the students of the Chaim Weizmann School in Acre and in a memorial plaque at the new “Bezeq” school that was established in Jerusalem.