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Dabush, Reuven (Benny)

Dabush, Reuven (Benny)


Reuven, son of Julia and Abraham, was born in Tripoli in Libya in 1941. In 1949, when he was about eight years old, he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel, where he studied in the first two grades of the Zlita elementary school, Who was educated at the son of Shemen Institute in Ramat Aviv and then returned to his parents’ home, where his parents built their home in Moshav Zitan, near Lod. He spent two years working in his parents’ farm, and was well integrated into all the seasonal work that required the cultivation of the land, and he became fond of all the members of the moshav and many of them became close friends. He was invited to his home for many hours after the work ended, sitting around milky pistachio plates and seeds, which were most beloved to Bino, and were conversational and Simcha, and in 1954, when he was bar mitzvah, his parents decided to teach him a profession, And he began to work as an apprentice for two years, and Bino got up very early in the morning to work in the bakery, but he did not want to continue working in his new profession. At the end of two years, he returned to the moshav and returned to work in his parents’ farm. Now Bino was convinced that the earthwork was really the profession he wanted to pursue all his life. He loved all the agricultural works and devoted himself to nurturing the farm with all his might. The members of the moshav and his close friends welcomed his decision to return to the kibbutz. They lacked a pleasant girlfriend during his absence from the farm. Reuven joined the Israel Defense Forces in early May 1963 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he served as a soldier in the armored infantry and was transferred to reserve duty due to the state of the agriculture and his family situation. Passed through Sinai and reached the banks of the Suez Canal, and soon became fond of his commanders and comrades-in-arms, and his pleasant nature and wide-ranging friends bought him many friends. And his social life: “He was devoted Faithful to his position and was exemplary for his friends. He loved his family and took care of his needs, and especially he took care of his beloved daughter, Juliet, who would be a successful student and a Simcha girl, and would go out with his family for trips and places of recreation. And loved his wife Rachel and helped her with household chores, and he gave warmth and love to every person and even to animals, and he was a faithful son and devoted to his parents and his wife’s parents, Against the Egyptian army, and his unit defended the Tigris Straits on the 22nd of Tishrei, 5734 He was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind a wife, daughter, parents and brothers, and after his fall was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Local.

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