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Grossman, Yitzhak

Grossman, Yitzhak


Son of Yehezkel and Malka. He was born on November 10, 1936, in Jerusalem. He studied at the Moriah Elementary School and at the Maaleh High School in the real world. During his studies, he was a member of Bnei Akiva and later, until his enlistment, was a member of the Scouts movement. At the end of July 1955, he was drafted into the Armored Corps and served as a guide in the Armored Corps, where he studied in mathematics and physics and completed his studies in a high school diploma. He was interested in teaching, and even though they argued that teaching was hard work and that there was no reward, he would answer: “There is no profession that is more Yaffa than teaching. You have to accept the fact that the salary is not high, but I prefer a simple life that is interesting and satisfying to shiny salaries, with emptiness on their side. “Sometimes he would say,” Is there any other profession in which you walk, learn and enjoy teaching? He was a teacher at the Nahariya High School, and he was very clean and very kind, and his qualities stood out in his just and fair attitude toward his students. “Yitzhak, more than any other teacher, managed to achieve the special integration desired by every teacher – With full mutual trust, and with the respect and appreciation of his students, he found his world and tried to like his students and especially his son the many hobbies he devoted his time to, after his teaching day. And even his son, who had not yet reached the age of two and a half months When he was three years old, had already gone out with his father for a nature-loving trip, a trip that was made on foot, because Yitzhak always dreamed that his son Yuval would march The father and son also collected stamps, collecting coins from all over the world, including Israeli coins, as well as newspaper articles dealing with interesting events such as flying to space, sports and Jewish subjects, and mainly from his father and from his traditional home . Yitzhak used to tell his son Yuval almost every evening, a story from the Bible stories, and when Yuval reached the age of four, he knew almost all these stories. His ideas and love for Israel were partly based on stories from the Bible, and he had recently spoken about the idea of ​​settlement in the territories and was willing to do so in practice, and his love for Jerusalem was a good thing for his friends and acquaintances. , Which was expressed in listening to Chasidic music, and especially to cantorial periods that he heard on the radio and at every opportunity, even over records, and at times tried to play sports, which he liked and was accepted by the Wingate Institute. He trained in swimming and soccer, hoping that the student would surpass his teacher, everything he did He did a great deal of work, with full recognition, in his own way and with a joy of truth, a boundless joy of life, all done with the same smile he had woken up with, and in a calm atmosphere, his Lev was full of optimism and with a sigh he would say, “I promise it will be all right. I am sure that everything will end well. “When the Six-Day War broke out in the Golan Heights and then took part in operations in the Jordan Valley and the Canal, he managed to combine short trips and fun,To form. He was a great photographer and developed his hobby, which helped him call the landscape. He did not keep his full impressions, but wrote many letters to his home and to his students, who drank thirstily for his experiences. On Monday, 24 June 1970, he died in an exchange of fire with the enemy while defending the Golan Heights and was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya and left a wife and two children on the anniversary of his fall. In Nahariya, where Yitzhak was a teacher and educator, a booklet called “Yitzhak” was filled with lists of students, teachers and friends, a cultural room was erected in his memory and the memory of fallen students.

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