Dagan, Avraham

Their son-in-law of Elimelech and Leah. He was born on December 10, 1935 in Herzliya. He completed his studies at the Weizmann elementary school. Afterward he studied for the first two years at the New High School in Tel Aviv and returned to Herzliya to finish high school. Was a member of the Society for the Protection of Nature. The Ministry of Tourism has been accredited as a tour guide. Organize the wandering group at the “Egged” branch, the cooperative to which he belonged. On his trips, he instilled in his participants his enthusiasm for Israel, the sites and the corners of the country, and did his work out of love and responsibility. He was a sports fan. He was drafted into the IDF in July 1953, completed his officers’ training course and completed his military service as a lieutenant before the Sinai Campaign and was assigned to a reserve unit, since the unit to which he was posted did not take part in the battles and rushed to the battalion and urged his comrades to describe the campaign. The soldiers of his platoon were some of the older ones, treated with families and livelihood problems – and he shared all their concerns and did his best to help them and make them easier, and they returned loyalty and love to him until they became “soldiers of Dagan.” He was given the opportunity to participate in the Six-Day War and he was Simcha about it and told his commander: “I am Simcha that she is I once participated in the war. “In the last battle in the Latrun enclave on the second day of the battles, on the 26th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he displayed courage, initiative and resourcefulness in a battle against an Egyptian commando unit. She was born in the name of his father and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, with the active cooperation of members of the Herzliya branch and in cooperation with the soldiers of his brigade. “In the Six-Day War” in memory of his opponents – and he is among them. On the first anniversary of his death, the family, with the help of Egged, published a book in his memory bearing his name.