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Eliav (Lubotzky), Dan

Eliav (Lubotzky), Dan


Son of Yosef and Genia. He was born on 24.1.1933 in Paris, the capital of France, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1935. The family lived in Tel Aviv and Dan grew up and studied in a kindergarten in Tel Aviv. In April 1936 the bloody riots began. The Jewish residents were in constant danger, but despite the danger, several brave families decided to settle in Yokne’am, among them his parents’ family. In February 1937 the family moved into the apartment. When the Arabs attacked the Jews, Dan and his brother Uri were forced to hide and lie on the floor together with their mother. Dan attended elementary school in Yokne’am and continued his studies at the “Hugim” high school in Haifa, in the humanistic track. He was a good student, diligent and diligent. In his spare time, he used to read books, go out on the streets of the village and help with the housework. He was an excellent swimmer and was one of the first swimmers in the Sea of ​​Galilee. His parents’ house was open and warm and everything was welcomed. This was also inherited by the boys, and Dan’s friends did not have to beg him to help them with their studies. He would give them private lessons in his home, mathematics and Arabic. He was honest and kind, but withdrawn into himself, until sometimes it seemed that he was not interested in others, but it was only an external impression. At the age of 15, he used to work during summer vacations and vacations in the building, mainly as a prostitute, in order to save a little money, so that he would not become a burden on his parents. When he was at a crossroads – enlisting in the IDF or continuing his studies, he finally decided to continue his studies as part of the academic reserve, since his father had a decisive influence in the engineering department. As a bookseller on engineering subjects and as an engineer of the Ministry of Housing in the Northern District, As a student in the humanities program, he had to complete a large amount of material in the real subjects and to pass the entrance exams to the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, but he was not deterred by difficulties, , In the exercise In 1954, he worked for a short period of time under the supervision of the Jewish Agency for the construction of Moshav buildings in the Ta’anach region, and in 1955 he worked in the Solel Boneh branch of the Haifa branch for quantitative calculations, costing, partial and final accounts, and statistics. He spent two months in the Netherlands as part of an exchange of students and took part in the construction of an armed concrete bridge. In 1957 he married a wife and began to establish a family nest. He was a devoted father to his children and used to answer all their questions with great patience. He devoted only his spare time to them. He was drafted into the IDF in 1956 and was an excellent soldier, an excellent officer, an exemplary member, and Ehud for all his commanders and subordinates, and after completing his mandatory service, he served in the army corps. After completing his studies at the Technion in 1959, he was involved in the planning of buildings of all kinds, including the preparation of material for tenders, and in 1960 he was sent by the Ministry of Defense to France as engineering engineer , For six months, and then worked for the company to design prefabricated prefabricated buildings and prefabricated structures at Solel (Haifa branch), the Housing Ministry, and finally worked for three years as an engineer in the Defense Ministry, in the Construction and Property Division in the north.active. Four days later, Yardena was wounded in the course of his duties, when he took over a mine. On August 28, 1969, about three weeks after he was wounded, he died of his wounds. He left a wife and three children. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. After his fall, a booklet was published in his memory entitled “To the end”.

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