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Halfon, Rahamim (“Mino”, “Rami”)

Halfon, Rahamim (“Mino”, “Rami”)


Son of Refael and Geula. He was born on the 17th of Kislev 5737 (17.11.1937) in Benghazi, in Libya. As the Germans advanced towards the city at the outbreak of World War II, the family began to flee for their lives and fled towards Tobruk and Darna by a motorcycle, and then by truck, and on the way suffered from hunger and thirst, to Egypt. When the war approached Egypt, the family continued to travel to the country, but when they reached it it was not allowed to leave the train and the family was forced to continue to Beirut. Toward the end of the war, the family returned from Lebanon to Benghazi in a few weeks in Israel. In Israel he was given his mother and the family returned to Benghazi. The father destroyed his affairs there and the entire family immigrated to Israel. His stepmother contracted a long illness, was hospitalized, and Rahamim was left without a mother. When he got to school, he began studying at the Bialik school in Tel Aviv and because of problems of welfare and other problems, he moved from school to school almost every year: from fifth to twelfth grade, he studied at the school on Kibbutz Beit Hashita. After graduating from high school (at the end of 1958, he was drafted into the IDF in January 1959) and served in the Golani Brigade. When he was discharged from the army, he left the farm because he wanted to live his life out of privacy, in those days he worked in several places: first he worked for IMI but felt that the job was not suitable for him; Afterward, he went to the Gadna training school and saw that he could not move quickly, since he wanted to make progress in his achievements and moved to the office of an accountant in which he was satisfied with his work. The National Insurance Institute, “the Severance Pay Law,” and was very Simcha when he distributed his first booklet. Both sides had never heard complaints from him, and he was always Simcha about his own life But when he was drafted, he left, spent several days in his unit and did not forget to jump, even for a short time, home and see his father and his family who loved “In his love for the family, he tried to calm their spirits, and when he left, he said:” Do not worry! We will not fight. A few days later, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), the second day of the battles, he fell in a battle at the Yado outpost near Jerusalem and was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl A pamphlet entitled “Rami” appeared in his memory

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