Fishbein, Ruthie

Daughter of Satira and Hermann was born on May 26, 1960, in Ramat Hasharon. Ruthie was impatient to be drafted into the army. Because she was the daughter of older parents, she was placed in a base near the house, but she did not like it and she tried very hard to change it. She was offered a choice between the north of the country and the IAF base in Ofira in the south. She was very excited about the second possibility. She was not yet a clerk, but she had to work for a while in the switchboard, to gain some seniority. Ruthie was well integrated into the company at the base, and was Simcha with the service and the magical scenery. Ruthie comes home every two weeks. Two months after it was set up at Opira, a fierce rainstorm hit the entire southern Sinai area and caused severe floods. Ruthie was a guard in the bunker near the switchboard, and was able to talk on the phone with her sister, a resident of Arad, and her parents who were there on the visit. She told of the storm, promising to call again. But during the night the water burst in and flooded the bunker. Ruthi fell in the course of her duty on October 21, 1979. ” She was brought to rest In the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.

Fishbein, Ruthie

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