Doiko, Shaul
Son of Yaakov and Ruhama. Born on December 10, 1950 in Casablanca, Morocco, his family immigrated to Israel in 1958. Shaul began studying at the Bialik School and completed his elementary studies at the Yeshurun religious school, both in Holon. In early 1969 he was drafted into the IDF and volunteered to serve in the medical corps. He wanted to be a paramedic and planned that after his discharge from regular service he would go to medical school. Most of the time he served in the Canal area and his vacations were rare and short. During his vacations he was restless and took care of what was happening on the front. It was hard for him to come to terms with his absence from office, with his departure from those who needed him. He did not trust the paramedics who took his place. He was religious, in the full sense of the word: he was the first to go out to pray and to observe a mild mitzvah as severe. Even in the harsh conditions, in the cold and the heat, in the camp and in the field, he would wake up early to put on tefillin. He has never done so, heaven forbid, at the expense of another activity: “As a soldier, I owe what obligates all the soldiers, and as a religious person, I am obligated by what the Torah requires, and there is no obligation to nullify duty.” His attitude to the place was similar to that of his friends. He never made a friend’s face public. But he did not hesitate to prove the proof. On May 3, 1970, he fell in a stronghold near Kantara, on the banks of the Canal, from the bullet of an enemy sniper, as he rushed to help the injured man and exposed himself to enemy fire. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. The commander of the unit wrote to his parents in a letter of condolence: “For almost a year, your son served in my unit and stood out as a highly devoted soldier in his position. His family put a Torah scroll in his name into the synagogue of the high school where he studied in Holon.