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Harazi, Zion

Harazi, Zion


The eldest son of Yahya and Naama. He was born on the 11th of Elul 5711 (12.9.1951) in Moshav Eliachin, where he studied at the Maimonides State Religious School and continued to study at the Kibbutz Shluhot High School in the Beit She’an Valley. He was a very sociable young man, surrounded by friends, who coordinated every social activity, and even when he was a child, he was very good at his kindness and good humor, concentrating around the neighborhood’s children on Saturdays Singing Shabbat songs with them, playing various games and even making quizzes, he would travel with the children around and teach them to love the country And he spent a lot of time practicing gymnastics and games, and as a result he was very physically fit, reading books – mainly in the air force, aviation and airplanes – his main hobby was building metal airplane models, and he always dreamed that when he enlisted in the IDF, The homeland he loved so much as a pilot in the air force. Zion enlisted in the IDF in the middle of August 1969. He was not accepted into the Air Force and his request to volunteer for the paratroopers was not accepted because of his family situation, In close contact with his family and friends, on the 22nd of Adar I 5702 (February 22, 1970), Zion fell in the line of duty and was put to rest at the cemetery in Moshav Elihin.

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