Glaberson, Israel (“Srulik”)

Son of Haim and Fanny. He was born on March 29, 1946, in Marseilles, France After the Second World War, when the masses of Holocaust survivors were looking for a way to immigrate to Israel, Elementary school in Kiryat Haim At the age of 16, you gave birth to his father and the mother struggled hard to support the family. Even then he decided to do his best to help his mother. After completing his high school studies at the A-Asher Municipal High School in Kiryat Eliezer, he was drafted into the IDF (in August 1964) and completed his service in the Medical Faculty, where he never lost his life. In the IDF – and since then a new period in his life began, full of enthusiasm and emotional satisfaction, which filled his whole being and gave vent to his turbulent emotions. The poems he wrote reflect his troubled soul and his Lev, but he hid his poems from the eyes of the family and only a few of his friends knew about them. Braveheartedly he was extraordinary, but at the same time he had delicate feelings and his love for his mother and sister knew no bounds; All the mother’s worries he would dismiss with a hand out of concern and devotion to her. He was far from his home during his service in the Armored Corps, but during his vacations he would burst into the house full of joy, and sow warmth all around him – and so pleased the hearts of his mother and sister. His subordinates also loved him for the discovery of his brotherhood and often cited one of his leaders who testified: As an officer he was allowed to sleep not with them, but he gave up his “dignity” and slept in his brother-in-law. He excelled in all the positions assigned to him, and in his ability to grasp, he could take control of every situation. He was always willing to volunteer for any action that required daring and mental courage and did not take into account the dangers that were expected. On the 27th of Adar 5767 (7.4.1967) he fell in combat on the Syrian border when he was found in an open area and fragments of shells flew all over. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. In 1968, a book was published in his name (“Srulik”), and includes, among others, his poems in the estate.