Glass, Ruth (“Ruthelle”)

Daughter of Moses and Sima. Born on 15.11.1950 in Kibbutz Givat Brenner, she studied at the elementary school and at the Givat Brenner High School, and was able to develop good relations with her classmates. And with the confidence of a girl who was meant to bear and nurture life, she would hold the babies with her thin, strong hands, and with her caressing gaze she would awaken their first smiles, and as she loved her work, caring for the babies with tenderness and love, she was Simcha in her work as a nurse to help others in distress. She must fulfill her role with all her Lev and steam, and on trips she was responsible for the “first aid” She was a member of Hanoar Haoved, a sports, reading and listening group, and in December 1969 she enlisted in the IDF and began serving in the Medical Corps as a medic. She chose this role out of the desire to make the best of her young years. “I want to do something useful,” she said, “and not to work for two years in a simple service, I want to feel that there is value to this time.” When she volunteered to be a paramedic in the army, she knew and believed that by giving help to the needy, she would be able to exhaust her full potential and would be Simcha to see a soldier relieved of his pain or a soldier who had recovered. She considered it a reward for her work and therefore loved her work in the army with all her Lev. When she saw a soldier wounded in his suffering, Ruth would hold his hand, talk to him, or put a record on the gramophone to forget his pain. When she went on vacation, she promised to bring in seedlings, to put them in the window, because on Shabbat the soldiers would rest in their chairs, see the seedlings and run out of them. In the days of her service she would refrain from telling about herself, her actions in the IDF, and various hopes and doubts, because she was absorbed in herself. “I do what I do, because I have to do them and not to be seen. . . “She saw her service as an internal escape to fulfill her duty, she did her job as a combat sergeant with the greatest devotion, and earned the prestige and love of both soldiers and commanders, her work was hard, but she did not complain about it. , Accompanied by the wounded, helps with the help of intelligent and faithful people, and with a smile of participation in the suffering of her soldiers, and when necessary, even donates blood to the wounded, while on her service she was mortally wounded and on 17/12/1970 she fell in the line of duty. The cemetery sent a letter of condolence to her parents, in which he wrote: “e I cut Ruth off for about seven months while doing her daily work at the Rafidim Clinic. I always marveled at her exalted mood, which swept us all, despite her workload. She always took part in the clinic’s work and did more than the duty on her, whether by helping the dentist or treating us with the wounded who came from the canal line. – – – When I visited her recently she received me with the same smile. The soldiers and officers of the unit share in their great mourning. “A booklet entitled” Ruthie “was published in her memory after her fall.