Copercin, Chaim

Son of Shlomo and Rebecca. He was born on June 2, 1936 in Nesher near Haifa. Where he spent his childhood and in the same neighborhood visited the kindergarten and attended elementary school. (Later he continued his studies in Haifa, where his parents moved to live, joined the Hanoar Haoved movement, studied at the Air Force Technical School, and after completing his army service in February 1954 he fulfilled his duties in the Air Force himself. When he was about to leave, he began to talk about joining his friends in Ein Gedi because the city life was not in his mind and he always dreamed of a collective way of life, while his commanders demanded that he sign a service- He replied that people who volunteered for the permanent army would be found, while those who went to Ein Gedi were more difficult to find. Where he said to settle down and build his home, and he worked in Ein Gedi as a tractor operator and always said: “The agriculture is on our shoulders because we are liberated.” And more: “If we disappoint, who can we trust?” He was cheerful and Simcha and the air was full of juicy jokes. He was an active member of the liaison committee, and his active and effective activities were felt on every day: On October 4, 1956, he fell in a battle with infiltrators on the road to Sodom, Beer Sheva. – The military cemetery in Haifa. In Mershvan, 1957, a booklet appeared in his memory on behalf of Ein Gedi.