Habbush (Tarshish), Shimon

Son of Haim and Yehudit. He was born on the 16th of Sivan 5636 (16.5.1936) in the city of Sana’a, in Yemen. At the age of four and a half he was sent to the “cheder” Shortly afterwards, the family went to Aden to come to Israel. The days of the family’s stay there were days of anticipation for the desired goal, for Shimon knew, loved and loved the country from his father’s stories, which he visited in 1934. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the family arrived in Israel. The boy started visiting the elementary school for “Mizrahi” boys, moved to the “Tel-Nordoi” school; From there to the Herzliya Gymnasium where he completed his studies. He belonged to the Scout movement. Showed special tendencies to literature and spent most of his time reading and writing. He was also a highly accomplished athlete. When he reached the age of enlistment, he hurried to the police station and tried to pass all the medical examinations and get a certificate that he was kosher for service, although he had the option of postponing his enlistment for reasons of health. When I asked him why he did not ask for a postponement, even for a while, he replied, “Father, I do not want to appear to be evasive. And our villages. ” In October 1954 he was drafted into the IDF as part of the Nahal Brigade (in the Tel Katzir farm). It was not by accident that he joined the Nahal, because he always loved nature, its flora and fauna, and had a goal for the future, because he wanted to be a farmer and a farmer, and in the short time he worked in kibbutz farms And later in the Nahal Brigade) did this work out of desire and enthusiasm. The city life never appealed to him, and as a seeker of justice and truth (which, in his opinion, do not exist in the city), he aspired to quiet and peaceful village life. After a while, in Tel-Katzir, he called (because of the mountains and the sea) and wanted to see his future home. Shortly before he fell, he became a member of the kibbutz. When the problem of the military courses began, he offered himself a course for scouts, which he successfully completed. Although he knew most of the country from school and movement and his “private” trips, accompanied by a friend or alone, the little that he did not meet was completed as a scout in the Nahal Brigade, and fell during a combat operation on the 23rd of Nisan, And the Tel Qasir family published a pamphlet in his memory, in which a Torah scroll was placed in the synagogue of the Yemenite Jews in Tel Aviv, and was mentioned in Uri Milstein’s book, “The Paratroopers’ Wars”.