Fadida, Yitzhak (“Jackie”)

Son of Shimon and Hannah. He was born on the 9th of Av 5705 (July 19, 1945) in Oran, Algeria, where he was discovered when his parents left Algeria in order to immigrate to Israel, and were arrested in Cyprus. Before the declaration of the state at the UN. At first they lived in Rishon Letzion and seven months later moved to Haifa. When Yitzhak arrived at school, he began to study at the Beit Yitzhak elementary school in the neighborhood and was able to absorb the material of his studies. His classmates loved him because Yitzhak loved to help anyone who needed help. He excelled in art classes, painting, and handicrafts. He completed his elementary studies with great success and then went out to help support his family, because it was very extensive – and hence the parents could not give Yitzhak secondary education. At the age of 17, Yitzhak began to dream about his military career and was ahead of his army service. He was drafted in August 1963. After his discharge from the army, he returned to civilian life and worked as a locksmith in an industrial plant in the Haifa Bay, and his employers loved him very much and were pleased with his work. He was Simcha and cheerful and his voice was pleasant and he could imitate voices and make all kinds of tricks. His childhood dream was theater. He wanted to be an actor in it. After his discharge from the army, he was registered as an amateur actor at the Haifa Municipal Theater, but did not succeed. As mentioned above, his parents loved a great love and this was expressed not only with his help to them but also pleasantly pleasant songs when sitting with them. He would always go with his father to pray and that would make parents Simcha. He was very fond of trips throughout the country, both summer and winter, and he liked to spend many hours. In 1965 he met his girlfriend, who was not separated from her until his last day. In May 1967, during the days of alert before the Six-Day War, he was nervous about all the developments and would calm his parents and say that there was nothing to worry about. “If the IDF were dragged into war,” he would say, “he will surely defeat all the armies of the world” (He completed the course of the medics successfully in December 1966.) He took part in battles on the West Bank of the Jordan River and on the Syrian plateau. In June 1968 he was again called up for reserve duty and went to serve as a paramedic with the unit for a special defense position in the Sinai on the banks of the Suez Canal, but on July 8, 1968, Who returned home from a few days’ vacation, was shot by an Egyptian sniper when he volunteered to help the brigade commander in fortification work on the Suez Canal north of Port Tawfiq. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. In his letter of condolence to his parents, the unit commander wrote: “Your son has shown a spirit of volunteerism twice, while he volunteered to leave for the unit and at the same time they fell to help one of the commanders in order to assist him in carrying out the mission. In the book “The Trees Cut Down” in memory of the residents of Kiryat Haim who were killed, several pages were dedicated to him.