Katz, Aryeh
Arieh, son of Bella and Mordechai, was born on 28.11.1953 in Tel Aviv and attended the Yitzhak son of-Zvi elementary school. After that he graduated from the Amos De High School Shalit in Rehovot. Aryeh was a diligent and diligent student, but he also found leisure time for social activities – organized meetings between his friends and his home became a regular meeting place for young people his age. He was a member of the “Young Maccabi” and for many years guided the movement’s branch in Rehovot after successfully completing a national course for movement instructors. Thanks to his success in training positions, his name was given to Magen, which is awarded to the department that excels in the national instructors course. He was a handsome young man, tall and strong, quiet and smiling. He was naturally friendly, always helpful to others, and his friends called him by the nickname “Arik”. Aryeh was a loyal son and devoted to his parents and cared for his family. During his army service he kept thinking about the house and at the end of every vacation, he was beginning to think about visiting the house on the next vacation. Aryeh was drafted into the IDF at the end of November 1971 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, after completing his basic training course, completing a platoon and platoon commander course, and was assigned to the rank of corporal. He was an excellent soldier, competent and reliable, and eventually served as a corporal, despite his youth, and his soldiers regarded him as a rigid but fair commander whose strictness was a way of achieving his goal. , He was assigned to the task of Arik, who was asked to run a company book, and he was successful in doing so: The book was neat, tastefully decorated and wittyly decorated, and his commandant wrote: “He has a strong sense of perception, witty, sharp, “The commander of the unit wrote that” the department in which Arik served was one of the most responsible, and despite the tension and responsibility in which she was involved, The department also the gayest. In the Yom Kippur War, Aryeh took part in the battles of containment and break-up against the Egyptians on the Sinai front, and on October 15, 1973 Aryeh fought with his unit in the region “The Chinese farm,” as a machine gunner in the company’s half-track, and the half-track burst into the cross-section of the Suez Canal and was hit by a missile fired from the ambush. Aryeh was killed and brought to eternal rest in the civil cemetery in Rehovot. His commander wrote about his fall: “He fought like a Aryeh, with constant fire from the machine gun.” Survived by his parents and brother. After his fall, he was given the rank of sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Arik was one of those who constitute the healthy foundation, the strong infrastructure for each unit. His unit published a pamphlet in memory of its soldiers who fell in the war and included a chapter dedicated to Aryeh. One of his commanders wrote about him: “His memory will remain as a decisive commander, a reliable soldier and a close relative.”
