Erzuvan, Avraham (Avi)

Ben Lillian and David. He was born on April 15, 1966 in Kiryat Gat. Where he grew up and was educated. After completing his elementary studies at the Sprinzak School and the Shalon Junior High School, he studied mechanical mechanics at the Rogozin High School for a year, and at the end of his career joined the Technical College of the Ordnance Corps in Tzrifin. At the beginning of April 1984, Avi was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, where he served as a mechanic in the Ordnance Corps. His commanders saw him as a good and professional soldier, disciplined and highly motivated, who performed his vital work faithfully and with great devotion. After completing compulsory service in April 1987, Avi joined the ranks of the career army and continued in his role as a mechanic for armored personnel carriers, according to his commanding officer Avi Yaffe, who was serious, dedicated, responsible and investor, showed great personal and operational ability and contributed greatly to the base. On May 23, 1989, my father fell in the line of duty at the age of twenty-three, and my father was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Gat, leaving two brothers, Yaakov and Yitzhak, After his fall, my father was promoted to the rank of master sergeant. His family commemorated the donation of a Torah scroll to the Akedat Yitzchak Synagogue in Kiryat Gat. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “We got to know my father as an excellent soldier, as a commander and as an excellent professional, as a sociable person, a favorite of all, we learned to know him as a modest person who stands out in deeds and not in words. My father was released from the army and after a while decided to return to the unit, to the friends he loved, and I was very happy when he returned because we needed the best people in order to succeed in our mission – the defense of the state. That way he will continue to chart our path. “