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Harrer, Jacques

Harrer, Jacques


Jacques, son of Alice and Moshe, was born on 28.12.1941 in Sapi, Morocco, where he attended both the Alliance high school and the vocational high school in his hometown. He was born in France in 1961. In 1961, at the age of twenty, he immigrated to Israel. Jacques was born into a family known for her wealth and education. He received European education, but his family also gave him Jewish values. Throughout his school years, he also studied in Hebrew, in the afternoons and evenings. Since he was an outstanding student, he moved to Rabat, where he continued to study in the field of telephone technology. He had done well in his studies and had won a scholarship, which allowed him to continue his studies at the high school of technical studies in Czeblinka. Here, too, he saw great blessings in his labor and was among the four most outstanding students who had completed their studies in France. He was a handsome boy and had a great charm and charm. He loved people and everyone he met loved him. He is also blessed with a sensitive and sensitive eye that absorbed things, and with “golden hands” that performed them. From childhood he had not encountered a device that could not repair it and resume its operation. Even in crafts that are considered “women’s crafts” completely succeeded. He knew how to embroider charming clogs, iron and even cook excellent meals. He designed his own room and also carried out some of the construction. In all his ways and actions, he demanded the maximum and the perfect. He wanted to live a full life, in which there was also no single moment of activity and the joy of creation. He learned to appreciate life and asked for a life as long and Simcha as possible. He came to Israel alone in the wake of his older brother, who came before him. At first he spent some time in a Hebrew ulpan in one of the kibbutzim and later moved to Netanya to find work in his profession. He could not find a job in the center of the country, so he moved to Dimona, where he was hired as an electrician. He was proud of the fact that he did not help anyone to get along in the country. Everything was done on his own. He had no contact with his family, some of which remained in Morocco and partly in France. He also did not use the various institutions. In this work he held until he was drafted. Jacques was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early February 1963. After completing basic training, he completed a sapper course with honors, and was a professional professional sapper who worked with confidence, but also with great caution. He did not agree to go to the officers’ course, despite the repeated requests of his commanders, because he believed that his life was more secure, and his commanders testified that he was an exemplary soldier who did everything he had to do without fault. And his comrades-in-arms, and when he was released from regular service, he married Sima, his girlfriend, wife, and brother You built a house full of love and warmth After the birth of their eldest son, the love between the couple grew, and their life together reached heights that they had never imagined existed. (18.10.1973) was killed in an artillery barrage and died of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Ra’anana, leaving behind a wife and son, his second son He was born after they fell and was named after him, parents, two sisters and three brothers. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal.

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