Edry, Isaac
Son of Jacob and Solika. He was born in 1940 in Casablanca, Morocco, and when he was 12, he immigrated to Israel without his parents, in “Youth Aliya.” When he arrived in Israel he was sent to Ramat Hadassah and from there to Kibbutz Palmachim, where he studied at elementary school and high school, “He loved sports, much to photograph, and his main hobby was drawing. Isaac was a great help to his parents, helped his brothers and sisters in their studies and invested a great deal of energy and concern in them. He encouraged the eldest girls to study in the kibbutz, and even helped her when she was in the IDF Yitzhak joined the IDF at the end of July 1959 and was assigned to the Armored Corps. He completed his regular service unharmed. After the liberation he went to France and spent about a year and a half there, but when he heard that his parents had immigrated from Morocco he immediately returned to Israel and they were very helpful. After returning from France, he settled in Dimona. He was called for periods of reserve service and thus took part in the Six-Day War. On December 16, 1969, he was killed by an enemy bombardment near the Suez Canal and brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Beit Shean, commemorated by a monument erected in the Beit She’an Amphitheater.
