Yitzhak (Hochla), son of Henia and Chaim, was born on February 17, 1943 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Ma’alot religious school in Bnei Brak and continued his studies in the religious high school in that city. After one year of study, he moved to the Mikve Israel agricultural school near Holon. Yitzhak was born at a difficult time for the Jewish community in Palestine. Rumors of the approaching German paratroopers led to the imposition of a prolonged curfew, along with the Palmach’s organization, and his childhood was in a national Jewish atmosphere, his parents were members of the Irgun and the young Yitzhak received a national religious education. At home, they had deep roots that connected him to the Land of Israel with intense love, uncompromising in which his character as an Israeli and proud Jew was prepared to sacrifice the most precious to him for his homeland and his people. At school Yitzhak was known for his mischievousness and his many pranks. Nevertheless, because he had a lot of charm and personal charm, his teachers liked him and kept his eye on his tricks. Already in elementary school, excelled in his excellent physical ability and special ability to exploit this gift of heaven in sports. Later, when he studied at Mikve Israel, he became an outstanding basketball player in the Elitzur team. Even after completing high school and enlisting in the IDF, he did not abandon the sport and his team – “Elitzur.” Yitzhak was drafted into the IDF in early February 1961 and assigned to the Intelligence Corps. After a basic training course, he completed a course for squad commanders and was trained in an intelligence course, and was sent to a long and difficult course, which trained him as an aerial image decoder.It was not long before his superiors felt that his “friends” ), Was able to “exploit” much more and was sent to an officers’ course and completed the course successfully and received a permit to undergo a parachuting course, and served as an intelligence officer in a Paratroopers Brigade. Because he was a responsible and responsible officer, and he did his job efficiently and industriously He also met Rachel, who eventually married her, and after graduating from regular service he continued his studies at the Wingate Institute, and at the same time began working as a physical education teacher in a school for nurtured youth. For the first time in the history of basketball in Israel, the “Elitzur” group has become a magnet for religious fans wearing skullcaps, proud of their group, and within the group “Hochala” served as a symbol of energy and initiative – encouraging and encouraging to run, jump, Like her. The “understanders” began to notice him, and fans among basketball fans began to recognize him in the streets. In 1965 he was invited to participate in preparing the Israeli national team for an international tournament. During the training period, the players were quarantined and all but the guards were carefully guarded. He did not agree not to see Rachel and preferred to be removed from the team so as not to miss meetings with her. With the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he completed a senior training course at the Wingate Institute and was also certified as a physical education teacher. During the war he excelled as a commander and as a fighter, and twice he was miraculously saved from enemy bullets. After the fighting, on a special holiday, he married Rachel and established his home in Tel Aviv. He continued his extensive activity, which earned him many admirers; He worked as a teacher in the “Ironi” high school and in the “Urim” school for hard-to-educate youth in south Tel Aviv. He also devoted himself to coaching and training talented youth as a reserve for the basketball team. In 1968 he went on a mission on behalf of the Jewish Agency to the United States and was praisedAt sea for his work there. In 1972 he decided to return to the IDF for a year in the army, and at the same time began his studies at the Bar-Ilan University in the departments of education, criminology and sociology. On October 24, 1973, he was killed when he broke into his half-track to help friends who were trapped on the main street in the city of Suez. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by a wife, son and daughter, parents, three brothers and two sisters. “The view from the western side of the canal is fantastic, but in fact the battle has been decided and the question now is what a price to take from the Egyptians,” he wrote in a letter sent to the school’s principal and teachers: “We feel tired and uncomfortable as a result of personal hygiene, Israel will not lie … to the teacher Yitzhak. ” In fact, all of Yitzhak’s wishes came true after his death: Elitzur’s basketball team qualified for the National League and the Religious Sports Association was integrated into the sports arena in Israel and achieved achievements; Yitzhak was awarded a bachelor’s degree in sociology and criminology after passing his exams; He had a daughter and was called Michal – as he wanted; The school, which he prepared for the championship competitions of the schools in Tel Aviv, won the championship; The sports institute that he conceived in his life is being established and his sister, Hannah, is gaining achievements in basketball.
