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Gingold, Yitzhak (“Itzik”)

Gingold, Yitzhak (“Itzik”)


Baruch and Yaffa’s firstborn son. He was born on April 21, 1949 in Petah Tikva. When he was four years old, his family moved to Moshav Gat Rimon, near Petah Tikva. He began studying at the elementary school in Kfar Ganim, continued at the PIKA School and graduated from the Brenner Municipal High School, both in Petach Tikvah, the city to which the family returned when he was about 11. Isaac was a naughty, smiling and clever boy, but he excelled in precision, order and cleanliness. He was interested in painting woodwork, and loved to draw figures of children, ships, etc., to copy them on wooden boards, to saw and paint them – and these were used as decorative pictures for the children’s room and for collecting stamps, coins and colorful postcards from all over the country and the world. He was interested in aviation and was an apprentice, and then a counselor in the Gadna Air. He participated in courses in three stages of the pilots, as well as in the Pless course. He was ordained as a trainer in the club. He also completed the Daya course and received the wings of Daya. Both at the club and at home, he often built Balsa pilots and plastic airplanes and paper. He loved driving and dreamed of buying a scooter, but he was not able to fulfill his dream, even though he passed motor tests for a motorcycle and a car. He also liked to swim in the sea and to travel a lot in the country, whose landscapes were the envy of his Lev. Prior to his induction he studied electronics at the Air Force Technical School in Haifa. At the beginning of October 1968, Yitzhak was drafted into the IDF, and he wanted to fulfill his dream from the beginning of his childhood and become a pilot, but he did not complete the pilot’s course to which he was accepted, and he was in charge of his department. On the 17th of Tammuz, 5771 (July 7, 1971), he died along with nine of his friends while he served as an airborne astronaut and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Especially since he left not only a soldier but also a friend, friend and friend, who served with us for several years. “In the Dikla Beach, which was named after Yitzhak and his friends” Hof Hane’ara “, not far from where they fell, a huge granite rock was erected in memory of them – The nearby moshav is called “Netiv Ha’asara”; the story of their lives and deaths was commemorated in a book that was published in their memory by the families and is called “The Enrichment.”

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