Gurevitch, Shmuel (Shmulik, Molik)
Ben Mina and Meir, Holocaust survivors. He was born on July 6, 1948 in Daugavpils, in the Soviet Union, and immigrated to Israel with his wife and daughter in 1977. He completed his elementary and secondary education in Latvia with honors. As a child he was naughty and energetic, curious, sociable and very friendly with his friends. He was a member of various youth movements in the Soviet Union and loved to travel on foot, to discover new landscapes and places, and when he was ten, he was orphaned from his father and remained with his mother and his sister Shmuel completed his master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Latvia. In 1977, he immigrated to Israel with his family and settled in Kiryat Yam, close to his mother and sister Clara, who immigrated to Israel a long time ago. Of the Technion, and then began working for Elbit And as a senior programmer for export systems, he is occasionally sent abroad. His last mission was to Peru, where he spent about a year with his family. When he returned, he received a personal letter of appreciation from the company president, indicating the client’s satisfaction with his activity on the site. As in his childhood, so in his workplace, Shmulik was very popular with his friends. His colleague, Zvi Herman, wrote: “You were acceptable to everyone because of your kindness, your light and the warmth you lavishly spread. To its successful conclusion. ” “I do not know anyone who did not like him, did not enjoy talking to him or being with him, and Shmulik knew how to bestow his love on everyone,” adds Zeev Shapira, also of Elbit. In 1983, his young daughter Chana was born and he managed to return from work abroad to be with his wife at the time of birth, and Shmuel was very devoted to his family and believed that he should first be a ‘human being’, but at the same time, He was drafted into the IDF in February 1979 for a short six-month service, and was then called for periods of active reserve duty in an engineering corps unit. In August 1989, he was called to reserve duty in the Golan Heights. On the 28th of Av 5749 (August 26, 1989), he fell during his service and was brought to eternal rest in the military section of the Tzur Shalom cemetery in Kiryat Yam. He left behind a wife, two daughters, a mother and a sister.
