Katz (Taburitzki), Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Genia and Chaim, was born on July 7, 1952, in Luban, Poland, to his parents, Holocaust survivors. His father, Chaim, lost his whole family in Poland during the Holocaust, but managed to save his life and reestablish a family in Israel. In 1957, the family immigrated to Israel, and Yitzhak attended the elementary school in Jerusalem’s Ir Ganim neighborhood where the family sat, and Yitzhak, the second son, was three years younger than his brother Leon. But while his brother was shutting up in his room and reading books, Itzik traveled extensively throughout the country, participated energetically in the activities of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement, and served as a tour guide, using the Yiddish in his mouth. , The two brothers were closely related to each other and always helped each other, and when he finished elementary school, Yitzhak went to his brother’s way and learned from At the ORT vocational high school in Jerusalem, Yitzhak was drafted into the IDF in late 1970. Since he was a member of the “Mi-Tal” group, he set out with his friends to establish the Na’aran Nahal outpost in the Jordan Valley, where he met his girlfriend Yardena A wife about a month before the war, where he completed a tank artillery course and a tank course in 1970. His beloved mother and grandmother died in 1970, and the house, which was crowded with many of its residents, was emptied, and no one expected it to empty completely. To live in Givatayim, where he began working as a mechanic. In the Yom Kippur War he served as a tank gunner on the northern front. On October 12, 1973, he was hit by a shell and fell in a battle near Mazra’at Beit Jann. Six days later, on the 18th of Tishrei 5740 (October 18, 1973), the eldest brother, Leon, fell while crossing the Suez Canal. The two brothers were brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. Yitzhak left behind a wife, a father and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote: “Yitzhak was a devoted soldier and an excellent friend, and he was fond of his comrades and commanders.” An article about the two brothers, whose lives and deaths were not separated, was published in the newspaper Maariv; In addition, a list was published in their memory in the “Maabah” newsletter published by the Jewish Agency to commemorate the fallen of the Ovadia families, since the brothers’ father is a member of the Jewish Agency.