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Dubz’insky, Khaym (“Tofhil”)

Dubz’insky, Khaym (“Tofhil”)


Son of Zvi and Esther. He was born in Lodz, Poland on December 10, 1945. At the age of two, two years before his family immigrated to Israel in 1947. After completing his studies at the “Hachayal” elementary school in Yad Eliyahu, he attended the municipal high school He joined the IDF in August 1963 and was a student in the Academic Reserve at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Faculty of Natural Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) and during his vacations he fulfilled his duty to the IDF and completed a course for the IDF. Two years later, when he finished his officers’ course, he decided that he would not return to the third year of school and when asked by his father what brought him to this decision he replied that in his opinion our country needed combat officers more than administrative officers. He moved from the Academic Reserve Officers ‘Course to the Infantry Officers Course and served for a year as an instructor in the officers’ school. A month before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he arrived at the paratroopers’ camp because he wanted to be a parachutist and to serve in this manner, saying that the state needed paratroopers. His commanders objected to this, but he insisted and convinced them that they had recommended paratroopers. In his service he reached the rank of lieutenant. In the Six-Day War Chaim received an order to disarm an enemy machine gun that Basho had flattened his company; On the way to make the mission despite the strong fire – fell; This was in a battle that took place near Gaza on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. He was buried in the military cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. Prof. Azriel Levy, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, devoted a chapter in his research entitled “Introduction to Modern Analysis” to six students of the Institute of Mathematics who fell on the defense of the homeland and lived among them. A book bearing his name was published by his parents and friends. A few pages were devoted to his history and description of his character in the book “Nizkor” published by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Student Union, edited by Yehuda the civilian. In Gogli Esh, vol. 4, the school bag of the sons of the fallen soldiers in Israel, was brought from his estate.

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