Fried, Jacob (‘Kobi’)

Son of Yosef and Erica. He was born on November 20, 1959 in Haifa. From early childhood Kobi’s talents were discovered. At the Tzafririm elementary school, where he began to study, the teacher asked to pick up a class. But this did not happen, because the family moved to another neighborhood and Kobi faced a state of acclimatization in a new school, with new teachers and new friends. Kobi went on to study at the Tel-Hai School and graduated from the vocational high school in the seminary with the aim of electronics, he was very sharp-eyed and very quick to grasp, and at the age of five he played chess with great success and when he studied in junior high, To the astonishment of the teacher who made a mistake when he was thirteen years old and underwent a psychotecanic examination and was assigned a high IQ, following which he participated in a computer course on behalf of the Technion and successfully completed the course of the course. Etc. Yes, he was involved in building airplane models, another hobby of his – a collection of stamps by countries and subjects. And in 1972 he won the Israel Knowledge Quiz, held by the Abba Hushi House, and Kobi excelled in social and volunteer activities, and his friends greatly admired his work and was chosen as the best friend in the class and received a certificate of recognition for his part in the activities He was a member of the Mahanot Ha’olim youth movement, participated in its activities as a trainee and a counselor, went to volunteer work in the kibbutzim and nevertheless found leisure time for him. And the strength to volunteer for the Civil Guard, successfully completed a course for youth training for positions in the Hazar Guard J. volunteered and was appointed special police officer. His desire to benefit others was also expressed in the fact that even though he was a member of the Nahal Brigade who were about to settle in one of the kibbutzim, he decided to join the Umarim nucleus, which was supposed to operate in the town of Ma’alot, thus contributing to narrowing the social gap and bringing together members of different sectors of the Yishuv. He was placed in the military cemetery in Haifa, left behind by his parents and brother in the letter of December 4, 1977. Condolences to the bereaved family His commander noted that Yaakov “was a quiet, friendly and kind guy. A disciplined soldier is an exemplary example of a good soldier. “To commemorate his memory, his family established a Maalot Dar Tarbut, which is available to the Nahal units in the town. The club has a rich library of various subjects and a music listening area, as well as a grove of 18 pine trees during the years of his life.