Kaplan, Nachum

Son of Aryeh and Tzipora. He was born on May 19, 1936 in Jerusalem. After graduating from elementary school he attended the ORT vocational school in Jerusalem. He was healthy in body and soul and his joy of life knew how to infuse his surroundings; From his childhood and later in his army service, he would have shown his great love for his comrades-in-arms and for the agriculture. Despite his meticulous expression, he had a good and compassionate soul – and this revealed in his pain the suffering and deprivation of others and even the animals showed special sensitivity. He showed them a lot of affection and always defended and cared for them-and that’s why he was a vegetarian for most of his life. He toured the country for a long time until he knew every corner of it. He belonged to the “Eshet” training program in the Urim group. He was drafted into the IDF in January 1955 as part of the Nahal Brigade. After completing a course he became the instructor and later became the commander of the platoon in the Erez farm, but he did not like the war, but he did his duty with all his responsibility, but as a commander he was strict, but everyone admired him and did not feel his superiority because of his good temper and his subordinates. He was brought to burial in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and on 28 October 5757 he was put to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. “Thirty” The Urim group published a leaflet in memory of him and one of his friends (Yosef Gal-Ad), and on the following year the group published a small file in memory of them, “Still.” The Erez group was also mentioned in the booklet of the tribe of the “Niv HaGo’el” group. In his memory and in the memory of his friends he took out Beit Zeltzach, the hachshara that was in Erez and where Nahum was its commander, the collection of “Reim” – about him and about two others who fell in the Sinai.