Goldstein, Shimon

Shimon (Shmaleh), son of Perla and Jacob, was born on December 14, 1934 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Tachkemoni Elementary School in Tel Aviv and continued his studies at a youth group at Kibbutz Sha’ar Hagolan. Afterward, he took courses in painting, photography and music. Shimon had many hobbies. He read a lot, especially in the fields of radio and electronics, studied languages ​​for pleasure, wrote poems, drew and photographed landscapes, and developed the photographs in the laboratory he built for himself. He listened a lot to classical music, read a lot about composers and their works, learned to play the flute, and sometimes, in times of stress and distress, he would move away from society and play himself with a harmonica. He loved the sea very much and used to fish in it. He went for a walk around the country and even to hunt for animals. Shimon was very friendly, loved to help his friends, and had a loyal and devoted friend. He was frank. His friend spoke of him: “His Lev was open to all, and he always wanted to relate to all his doubts and successes, and to his dilemmas – human, simple and understandable – the instinct of life stirred in them: he was the embodiment of the good and innocent, and at the same time he was also childish and sometimes irresponsible, . He was smiling, with a sense of humor, and liked to do pranks, to the delight of his acquaintances. He was not picky, liked the simplicity and was Simcha with his lot. Shimon was drafted into the IDF at the end of December 1952 and assigned to the Artillery Corps, where he was a good soldier, responsible and devoted, he was loyal to his commanders and was an example of his friends in his good temper, patience and obedience. He was always devoted to his wife Nitza and a loving father to his children, and during the Six Day War he was one of the members of the artillery corps in the division of Major General Israel Tal For his part in this war he was awarded the “Six Day War.” When the Second Lebanon War broke out, During the Yom Kippur War, Shim’on was conscripted and sent to the Sinai front with his unit, and was among the members of the artillery support headquarters, where he spent many hours sitting beside the radio and connecting the commanders in the war room to the units that were spreading and moving away from each other on their way to the west. (22.10.1973), a few minutes before the cease-fire came into effect, Shimon was hit and killed by a barrage of Katyushas near one of the bridges the IDF was leaning on the Suez Canal, not far from the city of Ismailia. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife, a son and two daughters, a mother and a brother. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Shimon was a model soldier and a loyal friend of all of us, always ready for difficult tasks and helping his friends. His unit published a pamphlet entitled “In Memory of Our Friends” in memory of its people who fell in the war, and Shimon among them.