Dodels, Naftali (Dolly)

Son of Edna and Avraham Zvi, was born on 27.7.1959 in Bnei Brak. For four years he studied at the religious school “Shear Yashuv” and then continued his studies at the Segula school in Bnei Brak. He completed his high school studies with the real track of the “Nativ Meir” high school yeshiva in Jerusalem. After graduating from high school, he studied for a year at the Merkaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. Naftali, whose friends called him Dolly, excelled in his studies in both the real and human professions. He loved studying and always wanted to enrich his knowledge and expand his education. He had many hobbies and everyone found time. He liked to volunteer and read a good book, he also liked to spend his time together and traveled with his friends in Israel. From an early age, he was attracted to photography and took out Yaffa photographs that captured people, events and sites. While a student in Bnei Brak, he joined the Bnei Akiva movement and continued his activities in the Jerusalem branch of the movement. Dolly spent his holidays in his home with his family, who used to share his experiences in school. Naftali was drafted into the IDF in early November 1978 and volunteered to serve in the Infantry Corps, after completing basic training and was sent to the Golani regiment. After being found suitable for the officer, he was sent to a course for infantry officers and completed his training with great success, and was appointed as a guide in the infantry school and fulfilled his duties with devotion and loyalty. His commanders were very impressed with how he functioned and noted in their opinion that he was “a very good officer, who is very small, professional, responsible and highly motivated.” While being meticulous in matters of safety and discipline, he served as an example to his soldiers and was admired and admired. He was quickly promoted to the rank of lieutenant. At the end of that year, he retired from the IDF and returned to study at the Merkaz Harav yeshiva, where he studied at the Open University’s Natural Sciences Department, and on Lag Ba’omer 5743 he married his girlfriend Shifra and planned to continue his studies at the university. He joined the paratroopers’ battalion in the role of operations officer, and in mid-June 1983, while serving as a reconnaissance commander in the mission to open a route, Naftali was shot in the head by Naftali (10.6.1983) In Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, leaving behind a wife, parents, two sisters and In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “The unit where Naftali served was of relatively older soldiers. When he reached us, he thought of her without enough combat and expressed his apprehensions about joining such a unit. But when he entered the battalion he integrated well and stood out as an officer with great ability. Despite his great operational activity, he devoted his spare time to Torah study and imparted a sense of spirituality in a region that was entirely military and practical. In his memory, his family donated a platform and a table for reading the Torah scroll in the synagogue of the children’s institution “The Ahuzat Sarah,” in which he was raised to the Torah as a mitzva and as a bridegroom, as well as a scholarship fund in his name, which each year grants scholarships to a student at Netiv Meir and to a yeshiva student in Merkaz Harav. captain