Groag, Shaul
Son of Lev and Rivka. He was born on February 18, 1947, in Kiryat Binyamin, Haifa. The parents – both founders of Kfar Ruppin in the Beit She’an Valley. The father was an active member of the Haganah, the regional commander of Kfar Ruppin until 1945, and from then until the outbreak of the War of Independence, a commander in Kiryat Binyamin. During this war he participated in battles in Mishmar Hayarden and the Galilee as an officer with the rank of captain, and as a company commander in the Sinai and in the Six-Day War. The mother works in the Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency. Shaul attended elementary school in Kiryat Binyamin until seventh grade and completed elementary school (eighth grade) in Kiryat Amal. Afterward, he attended the Haim Grinberg High School in Kiryat Tivon and in 1965 passed the matriculation exams. Was the center of the student committee, which, he says, “is the morality of the school.” He was a member and leader of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement. He had a serious and sad expression on his face and he was looking for the inner perfection he would demand of himself. This perfect perfection, which he found in the writings of various writers (such as AD Gordon, Ahad Ha’am, Martin Buber), and these were the cornerstones of his personality building, used to collect old and new maps and even tour and travel far away – He played with several instruments (mandolin, recorder, tambour, and shepherd’s flute), and Shaul was drafted into the army in July 1965 and was invited to flight tests, but because of his flawed vision, he was disqualified. His ambition was to reach one of the cruisers, and even though he had a sick knee that bothered him, he spent his basic training in an armored patrol unit. After that, he took a course in which he excelled, and was among those invited to the President’s Residence on Independence Day in 1966. He underwent a general officer’s course and then returned to the commando unit and guided the recruits to the battle where he fell while serving in compulsory military service Armored in the direction of Arish on the first day of the battles of the Six-Day War, he was on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (5.6.1967), Shaul was buried in the military cemetery in Bari and later moved to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa. Rafiah Junction on the same day, and after his fall, he was promoted to lieutenant “The Six Days of Glory” by A. Golan and “The Expositions in the Turret to Shabtai” (“The Six Days of Glory”), published in the booklet “Armored Patrol” published by comrades in Kibbutz Kfar Menachem. Tevet raised his memory. From his estate he was brought in “Gogli Esh”, Volume IV, which is the library of the sons’ estates in Israel. In the 2017 investigation it was emphasized that the late Lieutenant Shaul Groag was awarded the Medal of Honor.
