Halpern, Shlomo
Shlomo, son of Tzipora and Zvi, was born on the 13th of Adar I, 1951 in Haifa. He attended the “Zichron Yosef” elementary school and the “Reali” high school in Haifa. Shlomo was a sports fan and devoted a lot of time to guiding youth. In his spare time, he played soccer and basketball and kept his physical fitness. During his studies at the “Reali” school he was an apprentice, and later a counselor in the Scouts movement in Haifa. He loved to travel in Israel and went with his students to many trips around the country to get to know and love his students. Later on, he was active in the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) and did not miss a single trip around the country. Shlomo was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-July 1969 and served in elite reconnaissance units, after which he underwent a platoon commander’s course and a parachuting course and volunteered for the Egoz reconnaissance unit. He spent most of his service in the IDF on the northern border, participated in several operational activities across the border and was considered a good, devoted and loyal soldier After graduating from the army he began studying for his BA in economics at the University of Haifa, Real “and youth clubs, and mainly operated in the club” Miller “on Mount Carmel. During the Yom Kippur War, Shlomo fought with his unit in the battles of containment and break-ins against the Egyptians in the Sinai, and on October 24, 1973 he and his friends went to the city of Suez Where he was killed and killed by the Egyptians during the fighting from the company’s armored personnel carrier, who was brought to rest in the Haifa cemetery and left behind his parents and sister In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander said that Shlomo was an excellent professional, He was accepted and loved by the soldiers of the unit and excelled in his willingness to help others
