Issat, Muhammad

Son of Khadra and Mahmoud. Muhammad was born on 1 July 1951 in the Bedouin tribe of ‘Issat, which is located in the village of’ Eilabun. He was the fourth child of a large family with nine brothers and sisters. He grew up in his village, where he attended elementary school, and was a polite and acceptable boy to his teachers and schoolmates. On 5.4.1971, at the age of twenty, Muhammad enlisted in the IDF and served in the Border Police as a combatant. After his regular service, he continued to serve as a tracker, after completing a scouting course. He rose very quickly to the rank of sergeant (sergeant), preventing many attacks and infiltrations by terrorists on the northern border, and his commander said: “Muhammad was a company tracker. He was a calm, calculating, yet willing and proactive man. He contributed a great deal to the unit, taught new combat officers from his combat experience. Others enjoyed his company.” In 1977, Muhammad married a wife, and in the years that followed they had two children, Abir and Habib. He was a great husband and father, who loved his wife and children.On the morning of November 11, 1982, during the Second Lebanon War, an explosion took place in a building in the city of Tire, where the Israeli military government and many IDF forces were located. The building collapsed and about 100 people were killed, including seventy-six members of the Israeli security forces. Muhammad was thirty-one years old when he fell. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Eilabun. He left behind a wife and two children, parents, brothers and sisters