Greenboim, Yitzhak

Son of Hannah and Abraham, was born on April 30, 1953 in Kfar Saba. His parents, Holocaust survivors, immigrated from Hungary. Yitzhak was educated at the elementary school in Even Yehuda. From his youth, he belonged to youth and sports organizations in his community. Yitzhak was interested in various sports, including soccer, basketball, swimming and diving. He played for the local football team, and the football league of jobs. He traveled a lot and traveled the country. When he finished elementary school, Yitzhak studied for one year at ORT in Netanya, and then moved to the agricultural school in Pardes Hannah. He studied there for three years, until he received a high school diploma. In 1971, Yitzhak enlisted in the IDF, served in the Armored Corps, completed a course of defense, rose to the rank of corporal, and then rose to the rank of sergeant. Yitzhak did most of his military service in the south of the country. Towards the end of his regular service, the Yom Kippur War broke out, and he and his battalion went up to battle on the northern front, in Brigade 7. Three times his tank was hit in the front, and the only one on his team was safe. After the war, Yitzhak was discharged from the IDF and began working in the IAI’s hydraulic department, but he preferred to work as a clerk in the bank, and he was hired to work in a bank in Netanya, where he met Kati, his girlfriend at work. Two years after his first son, Omer, was born, Yitzhak was Simcha with his work, his family and his home, and two days after the outbreak of the Peace for the Galilee war, Yitzhak was drafted with his unit to the front in Lebanon on June 11, 1982. Yitzhak was killed on the spot. In a letter of condolence to his wife, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, loved by his comrades and commanders.” The commander of his brigade wrote to his wife: “Yitzhak fell heroically in the difficult battle that took place on Friday, June 11, 1982 in the Bekaa Valley against the Syrian army forces, when our brigade was trying to help rescue another IDF battalion, And saved the lives of many fighters from the terror of the terrorists’ murderous attacks. ” Yitzhak was laid to rest at the cemetery in Even Yehuda. He was 29 years old when he died. He left behind a wife, a son, parents and two brothers. Three months after his daughter was born, his daughter was born.