Groznik, Amnon (“Kapishka”)

Son of Haim and Tziporah. He was born on 29 November 1940 in Haifa. After graduating from the Geula Elementary School in Haifa, he moved to the high school in Sdot Yam and completed high school in the continuing classes there. As early as 1952, he participated in his first naval course, and he marveled at his adjustment to his older friends until he was finally crowned as the outstanding trainee despite his youth. He came to Sdot Yam as an apprentice to the “Mahanot Ha’olim” camp three years later, because he continued to live near the sea and was active in developing sailing sports among the younger generation. He belonged to Hapoel. He was also interested in animals and was a farmer in the farm, because he loved the cows in the barn. He did not sever his ties to the sea even when he was in the army and brought his friends from the armored patrol and sailed with them. He was a member of the Culture Committee. When he was drafted into the IDF, he served in the Golani Brigade and was a teacher at the School for Military Service. He also served in the Armored Corps, and on his way to the front on the eve of the Six-Day War served in the same framework. In his last letters home, he tried to calm his wife: “Everything will go well!” And again he wrote: “If something happens, do not take it too far to the Lev, know that I have always loved you, and teach Eilat the spirit I wanted you to be educated. Take care of yourself and do not get excited. I hope to return safely, but in the meantime I feel a pang in my Lev from longing “- and almost a day later a helicopter brought a note from him, undated, announcing:” Hard fighters, not sleeping. The morale is high and I am still healthy … “On the third day of the battles, on the 28th of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), when the commando was caught in a desperate battle in Bir Ahmeda, in the arid Sinai, he fell. The military cemetery for emergencies in Bari, and after a while was transferred to eternal rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz, and in the “Shiva” the Sdot Yam farm published a flyer, several pages devoted to Amnon and his friend. Remember, in Volume 4 of “Goily Ash”, a satchel of the estates of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars, was brought from his estate.