Fitoussi, Daniel
He was born to his parents Victor (Amram) and Rachel. He was born on 10.10.1949 in Tunis. He immigrated to Israel in 1956 with his family, who settled in Beit Shemesh, where he spent all his childhood and youth. Daniel was a child full of life and loved by all his fellow students at the Elyakim school in Beit Shemesh. He was not rattling and bragging, but quietly and modestly. His whole behavior was gentle, shy, and calm. He was a peace-seeker and peacemaker, and often took breaks to separate children from a quarrel. In his studies he was diligent and diligent and did not avoid problems, but dealt with them until he solved them. He loved people, was a loyal friend of his classmates and always willing to help and help with his kindness and devotion. He was always surrounded by guys and after school his house was a meeting place for his friends. They would have done nothing without consulting him first. Perhaps because of his laughter and jokes he seemed to be an outsider, but in fact he was very sensitive and serious. Daniel was drafted into the IDF in August 1967. When he received the draft, he was very Simcha to serve his country and his people: “It’s too bad that I can not enlist now to do something for the homeland – even die for it!” After being drafted, he was assigned to a combat engineering unit, and, as befits a disciplined soldier, did not mention anything about his work and service, and when he was sent to serve in the Canal area, he did not mention it, even in order not to worry the family. He always said: “Everything is good!” “Everything is fine!” “I hope it will be good!” The neighbors who lived near the house loved him very much because of his kindness and because of his On February 26, 1970, Daniel was killed in the Suez Canal by enemy shelling and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Beit Shemesh Yaakov Gross, who was Daniel’s friend More than a year and a half during his army service, he wrote to the family after Daniel fell, that after he was released from the army, Daniel was not removed from his Lev, and his memory was preserved with him.Yakov Gross published a collection of stories (some of which he has long since served in the army). This book was dedicated to the memory of Daniel and to the memory of another friend who also fell on the banks of the canal. He sent the book to the parents and in a letter to which he attached a few lines about Daniel, adding that one of the stories in his file, in which he tried to describe Daniel, was written in the same place where he had recently been alerted to Daniel.
