Czesnik, Mickey (Michael)

Son of Fred and Inga. Born in Tel Aviv on February 23, 1950, he grew up in Jerusalem and studied at the “Darom” elementary school and the high school in the capital until he reached the seventh grade. Mickey was a member of Hapoel Jerusalem and served as a goalkeeper in the youth soccer team, and was a member of the YMCA in Jerusalem and was the tennis and table tennis champion. He also participated in the Youth Tennis Championship – a competition held annually in Tel Aviv. From the age of 12 until his enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces, he was a member of the Scouts movement in Jerusalem, where he quit his studies when he was in the seventh grade after his father persuaded him to join him and work as a filmmaker in the beer movies. The paratroopers. The course was simple and clear: Mickey served as a soldier, took a platoon commander’s course, and a few months later he was sent to an officer’s course, after which he was given a short vacation and then went down to the Canal Zone, where he would serve as an instructor in the officers’ school. On April 26, 1970, he fell in a bombardment in the area of ​​the Suez Canal. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.