Edud, Israel (Zico)

Israel (Zico) son of Shoshana and Shmuel was born on November 18, 1946 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1948. He attended elementary school in Ramle and an elementary school in Kfar Saba, after He continued his studies at the agricultural school in son of Shemen, as part of the agricultural training of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement and in the Nachsholim High School. Israel was drafted into the IDF in early June 1964 and volunteered to serve in the paratroop brigade. After basic training, he took a parachuting course and a course in regiments. He was a good soldier, responsible and dedicated to his job. His friends say that despite the hard and arduous training he reached out to his failed friends. He had extraordinary physical fitness and great endurance; After completing his army service, he was accepted as a member of the kibbutz, took part in a course for plantation centers and was appointed to be responsible for the new avocado plantations, banana plantations and uprooting of the old orchards. After a few years he moved to the moshav, where he moved to Sakhnah, where he worked as a center for the poultry industry and as a counselor in the local agricultural school. But most of all he loved the sea – swimming, sailing, fishing and diving The members of the Association for the Study of Underwater Archeology, Israel was cheerful and Simcha, smiling and dedicated, and he loved to do pranks and tricks, and he did not get sad, and with all the pain or worry he knew how to cover up with a smile. He was not picky, liked the simplicity and was Simcha with his lot, and in 1967 fought with a paratroopers unit for the liberation of Jerusalem, and his family testified that he had returned from the war older and more serious. The “Six-Day War” and the “Operational Service Award”. In 1968 he married his girlfriend Amalia. He was a loyal son of his parents, a devoted husband to his wife, and a father who loved his daughter. Six days before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, he settled with his family in Moshav Neveh Mivtach, but did not receive his new home. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Israel was drafted and sent to the Sinai front with its unit. On October 17, 1973, Israel advanced with a reconnaissance unit that joined the battalion commander’s group to the train station at the Seraphim. The unit was attacked by large forces with concentrated fire, and after several hours of fighting, Israel was hit by a bullet and killed on the spot. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Gedot. He left behind a wife and two daughters, a mother and a brother. His daughter, who was born after his death, bears his name – Israela. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Israel was one of the veterans of the unit and participated in all the tasks that were imposed upon it until the day of its fall.