Isaac, Asher (“Isaac”)

Son of Yosef and Devorah. He was born on April 8, 1948 in Kfar Sirkin, where he attended elementary school. He was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and had been active since childhood. He grew up in the village and loved his parents’ farm. Every leisure hour he would devote himself to farm work and help his sick father as much as he could. After completing his elementary studies in the village, he moved to the Iron High School in Hadera, but two years later he was forced to leave his studies due to the difficult situation of his parents’ home in Kfar Sirkin. The villagers loved and respected him. During his spare time, he liked to go for walks in the fields and to watch the plants and the animals. He was enthusiastic about the country and traveled a lot. When the Six-Day War broke out he wanted to enlist in the IDF, but for various reasons and also because his brother was serving in a combat unit, he decided to help the villagers, who were in a difficult situation, especially because of the lack of working hands. The young man who saw his older brother as a guide in life, admired him and imitated most of his actions, and his relationship was a love affair without jealousy and narrow-mindedness, which was drafted into the IDF in August 1967. On him – help in his parents’ farm. At every opportunity he came home – not for rest and idleness but to work in the farm. He was preparing to return to the village at the end of his military service and establish a home and family there. He was about to marry one of the village girls and they had already been accepted. On the 13th of Iyar 5729 (13.5.1969) he died and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. In a letter of condolence to the family, his commander wrote that he believed and hoped that he would succeed in overcoming the severe injury that had occurred to him and would completely heal. The commander also described the grief and heavy grief that had descended upon the base when the disaster became known, because Fate had become cruel to Asher, shortly before his marriage. The letter also states: “Asher was one of the best instructors at the base, quiet, hardworking and modest, loved by his friends and accepted by his soldiers.