Elbaz, Ephraim

Efraim, son of Zahara and Yitzhak, was born in Morocco in 1944 and immigrated to Israel with his family in the 1960s, where he studied in a Talmud Torah school in Morocco, where he worked as a goldsmith for eight years. When Efraim immigrated to Israel with his parents and sister, the family settled in Lod, Ephraim, who was the main breadwinner, began to work as a diamond polisher in Ramle until he was drafted into the IDF and worked in several places as a laborer. Ephraim was drafted into the IDF in early May 1969, underwent basic training for the second stage and was assigned to reserve duty in the infantry as a rifleman, and after completing his military training, he worked at Israel Aircraft Industries. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Efraim served at the “caress” cavern on the Suez Canal, at the southern end of the small bitter lake, on the same day, October 6, 1973. Ephraim was killed and killed. His body remained in Egyptian territory and was returned from Egypt on 4.4.1975. A few weeks later his body was identified. He was brought to eternal rest at the Lod cemetery on 4.5.1975. Survived by a mother and three sisters: Sultana, Ariela and Gila. In 1971, about two years before his death, his father died of an illness. After they fell, Ephraim was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the commander of his regiment wrote: “Ephraim fought with great courage, showed great devotion to his comrades, courage and resourcefulness in battle and worked with great self-sacrifice and self-endangerment until his downfall. His mother donated a Torah scroll to the synagogue.