Harel (Gibli), Zacharia (Jackie)

Was born in 1943 in the city of Dahera, Yemen, and was raised by his father, who was a well-known rabbi in his city, and moved to live in Aden until their immigration to Israel in 1949, “In the framework of Operation Magic Carpet, they were taken to the Even Yehuda settlement, where some of their relatives stayed, and despite their difficult situation, the mother spared no effort to give her son as much education as possible. After completing his fifth grade, he moved to the boarding school of the religious youth village in Kfar Hassidim, where he moved through the three classes: the children’s society, the youth company and the youth company. The most successful of his students were his friends, who admired and admired him, and as a sign of recognition they chose him to be a member of social committees and assigned him important tasks in the school, and in 1959 he completed his studies and prepared In the days of his youth, Jackie showed great interest in music, played the flute and the drum, and used to read poetry, especially poetry, and secretly wrote poems for himself. In his short life, he was able to prove his skills in many spheres of activity, the wisdom of life in which he stood in his relations with his family and in his encounters with the public in all its aspects. Jackie was drafted into the IDF in August 1961 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, although he did not easily accept his mother’s consent to this step, but due to health problems he turned his profession into a driver, When he was discharged from regular service at the beginning of 1964, he worked for a certain period of time as a hired driver at Egged, and when he was active in the public affairs that dealt with his neighborhood in Even Yehuda, And after completing an accounting course, he began working as a bookkeeper in the Pension Fund for Agricultural and Unprofessional Workers, where he presented social challenges to AK Jackie married his choice of Lev Ruth, who established their home in the Ein Yaakov neighborhood of the settlement and had a son and a daughter, and his love for his wife and the two children knew no bounds. At the same time, he continued to worry about his mother, whose fate was so cruel to her from a young age: In 1973, Jacky was accepted to the economics, social relations, Many of the active reserve duty. Rose to the rank of Corporal, and after a transport transport course he was promoted to sergeant. Participated in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Both his commanders and subordinates admired him and saw him as a loyal friend and friend whom he always liked in his cheerful spirit. On Wednesday, November 4, 1974, Jackie fell in reserve duty in the course of his duty, at the age of 32, the same age as his late father at the time of his death. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Even Yehuda, where he lived. The family commemorated Jackie in the local synagogue, and also published a pamphlet in his memory, which, along with memoirs of family members and friends, also contains poems and prose from Jackie’s estates.