HaLevi, Herzl (“Hertzi”)

Herzl, son of Chaim-Shalom and Tzila HaLevi, was born on February 22, 1944 in Jerusalem. His upbringing was national religious. He studied and graduated from the Ma’ale High School in Jerusalem, where he was the youngest of the class’s students and among the first in achievements. Outside the religious school he also learned a gemara from a private teacher and came to understand the Talmud in its own right. Throughout his life and wherever he went, he sought to add knowledge and research. He was drafted into the IDF in July 1961 as part of the Nahal Brigade. After training, he was sent by the Scouts as a guide to Jerusalem to coordinate the religious Scouts. On the third day of the battles of the Six-Day War, on 28 Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), Herzl was wounded in a battle that took place in Old Jerusalem and when he advanced under fiery fire, he was killed. He left a wife and daughter born six months after her father had fallen. Was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.