Dahan, Ze’ev-Avraham (“Zevik”)

Son of Shlomo and Rachel. He was born on October 21, 1950 in Netanya. Ze’ev-Avraham came to the rowing farm when he was a boy of fifteen, where he soon became part of the youth group. He had his own way of understanding things and his own way of behaving. He never succumbed to convention unless he was convinced of the justice of things but nevertheless had a gentle and sensitive soul. His intense and lively energy, which sometimes bordered on playfulness, never caused displeasure to people who were really close to him and did not revolt against him. The children used to say about him with affection that he was tough and his friends always talked about him as “Zevik”. He was part of the scenery of the youth company in the agriculture and participated in the dancing, the night games, the tricks and the mischief of the young people, because he would say, “If not now – when?” He studied in the kibbutz until he finished high school, he played in the soccer team of “Hapoel” the rowers and on the volleyball team of the agriculture. In the middle of February 1970 he was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the Signal Corps, and during the army he matured and became serious, and over the years he spoke extensively about his close ties to the family and the agriculture and his desire to overcome the hardships of the army and return to the agriculture after his regular service and build his home there. On December 1, 1971, he died at the military cemetery in Netanya, and in the kibbutz newsletter that was published in the month of Ze’ev-Avraham’s death, things were recorded in his memory.