Haddad, Asher-Massoud

Asher-Mas’ud, son of Sarah and Sa’adani, was born on 26 May 1951 in Medanin, Tunisia, and immigrated to Israel in 1953. Was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-February 1969 and assigned to the Armored Corps, where he served as a staff member and commander in the Centurion and Patton tanks during the War of Attrition, served three months in the Suez Canal area. He worked hard to get into the Technion at Haifa University, where he added a penny to the payment of the expenses involved in his studies, and he worked as a guide, teacher, builder, plumber to fulfill the dream of academic studies at the Technion. “This period in his life was written by Prof. Bella Manheim, Sociology at the Technion: “I knew Asher as one of the few who managed to overcome many obstacles to higher education, and he justified the hopes placed on him by those who helped him in this way. In his few meetings with him, I saw a gentle, serious, devoted young man who was undoubtedly able to contribute a great deal. “In his service in the army, as well as during his time as a student in Haifa, he was very attached to his parents and family. But preferred to go home, to spend the Sabbath in the family’s lap, and his friends remember him as a man who kept his appearance and appearance in the Yom Kippur War, as a commander with the rank of First Sergeant in the central sector of the Suez Canal. On October 9, 1973, on the “Machshar” hill east of the Canal, he was killed, and he was brought to eternal rest in the Safed cemetery A. He left behind his parents and nine brothers and sisters, and his parents published a book in his memory entitled “On which Abu Bakr was taken,” in which the family, friends and friends spoke about his character.