Dan, Nahum

Nachum, son of Pnina and Reuven, was born on March 6, 1943 in Tel Aviv. Nachum was drafted into the IDF in late September 1961 and assigned to the Golani reconnaissance unit, which together with him participated in the Nukeib operation. Nachum has many courses that have always ended with high grades: parachute training, platoon commanders’ course, infantry training course, scouts course, infantry officers course, infantry officer training course, armored company course “Nachum returned to the kibbutz and became a member of the Artillery Corps in late April 1965. At that time, his friends say,” he would always groove on long lines. “Despite his love for the farm, Nahum found no rest. As a full-fledged kibbutz member, he asked for a year off, and went on to serve as a chemist on ships belonging to Hakibbutz Hameuhad. In 1968 he left the kibbutz and began to do various jobs in order to finance his studies: he drove a truck, worked as a security guard for El Al, Nachum was accepted as a student at Tel Aviv University, where he studied mathematics and physics for two years and spent two years studying economics and political science, while working as a computer programmer, and to add to his salary he worked as a clerk in the bank . “During these years, during which Nahum was busy studying, we did not have many meetings, but in those few meetings we sawYou were naughty when he was, but he was older and very gentle, and I think he was on the verge of realization and finding himself. His love for the kibbutz and its people was obvious, and although not now the time to deal with guesses, we think we knew him so well that he would return to us sooner or later. In the Yom Kippur War, Nahum fought in the Golan Heights as a front-line observation officer, and from a tank he aimed the artillery fire while his unit helped the armored forces to repel the Syrian attacks on the 14th of Tishrei, 10.10.1973), the victim of the tank in which he fought and Nachum fell, was brought to eternal rest in the military section of Kiryat Shaul, and left behind a mother and sister, who died of a malignant disease on December 1, 1973.