Eicho, Shmuel

The eldest son of Asalf and Appwerk. Born on 28.11.1989 in Gondar, Ethiopia, he was born in Goddam, where his parents worked, and was surrounded by the family unit of his parents and grandmother Who immigrated to Israel with his family when he was two years old, on February 1, 1991. The family was received at the Pinhas Sapir Absorption Center, which is located on Moshe Dayan Street in Kfar Sava, and stayed there for a year. He was a beautiful, smiling, cute and very well-liked boy because of his pleasant behavior, and was often invited to the neighbors’ homes because they loved him and asked to play with him and pamper him. It was not easy for the family, it had to adapt to a new language, food that was not used to it, to a different population, and all during the Gulf War, He moved to Bar-Lev junior high school and continued his high school studies at the Amal 1 school in his city, where he studied computers and was the best student of all his classmates. In English, he received scholarships at the recommendation of his school. One of his hobbies was sports and he practiced. Samuel was very helpful to his family, respected his parents, loved his brothers and sisters, and when asked about his experiences, he shared his interest and answered with great reason. During his high school years, he volunteered every evening to help Ethiopian immigrants. He was very attached to his students, whom he taught the Hebrew language, and helped them with their homework and the handling of their accounts. Shmuel enlisted in the Engineering Corps on 30.07.2007, motivated by the desire to serve in the IDF, and according to his friends in basic training he was a reliable friend. He volunteered, made the guys laugh, and although his legs ached during basic training, he did not think to rest for a moment. Basic training He served in the Engineering Corps in the 76th AKB (Atomic, Biological, Chemical). Shmuel served in the IDF for eight months until his death, when he was killed in the Kfar Saba military cemetery at the age of nineteen. Left his parents, brother and two sisters, and his parents said after his death: “Shmuel left us with a wounded heart and a confused head who asks all the time and does not get an answer.”