Haim, Hunan

Son of Michael and Tafpa. He was born on September 4, 1944 in Arbil, Iraq. In 1951 the family immigrated to Israel as part of the “On Wings of Eagles” campaign. At first, he learned his elementary studies and continued them in Tachkemoni in Tiberias. From the memories of those days, his mother tells how much the boy was aware of state security even then; once, uniformed police approached her and asked her where her son was. She was frightened but did not hide from him that the police were looking for him. But he calmed her down and, with a rare sense of pride, answered: “Mom, I caught the spy of the enemy of the state.” And told her that a stranger, dressed in Arab clothes, approached him and asked him to buy him a newspaper in the city. But instead called the police officer and informed him of the spy. When they asked him when he found out that the man was a spy, he answered that he saw money that was not Israeli. After identifying the suspect, the police gave him a book in gratitude for his alertness, and when he showed the book to his mother, he said, “It’s a big memento. After graduating from elementary school, he studied at the Hagalil High School, also in Tiberias. He was recruited to the IDF after receiving his matriculation certificate in November 1961. He was fond of writing songs, and after school he worked in various jobs and performed various services until the late hours of the night So that he could help support the family, which, despite its predicament, did not prevent him from continuing his studies, and encouraged him to do so. And indeed his way was one of successes one by one. In 1964-1965, he studied at the Tel Aviv branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. , Where he discovered his deep love for service, the love that brought him to permanent service and the study of geography later on.In those days he also discovered all the qualities of a social man and soon a new friend’s circle was forming around him. The Six-Day War broke out and he served in the rank of lieutenant, to which he served He did his job out of devotion and responsibility as usual, and his commanders knew that there was someone to trust that every task he had been given to him to carry out was complete and precise. And studied Orientalism and geography, and saw in his studies an additional task that he was assigned as an IDF man. He was never absent from a class or a lecture, and his breaks between classes were saved for a yeshiva in the library, except for the days before Karameh, after which he “defected” to his military unit. It is interesting to bring here an act that his mother raises from the day of Operation Karameh. He was on leave for school and heard the first news of the operation on the radio. He understood what was happening there and wanted to go out but did not like emotional separations. Went to his mother and asked her to go to a health clinic to see a doctor. When his mother returned from the clinic, the neighbors learned that he had left the house in uniform and was riding a scooter. But in the evening he returned home dusty and tired. His mother turned to him and claimed, “Just do not tell me that you were in Karameh.” And he answered: “A person who is accustomed to smoking and is unable to smoke – will he not feel headaches?To yourself that the IDF will go to wake every soldier and soldier from his sleep to such actions, where are we going to live? After completing his studies, he asked to return to active duty. He was placed first in the military command and later in a training base. In the last week of his life, he wanted to talk to his mother about Simcha things and told her: “I’m going to buy a house in Neveh Shoshanim, where you’ll have a home with a garden … Just push me and push me to get married, . He promised, but did not succeed, that on the day of the 3rd of Adar, 5729 (21 February 1969), he died near Kfar Shmaryahu in the course of his duty, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. “He said.