Katzburg, Shimon Haim

Son of Netanel and Yehudit. He was born on October 16, 1954 in Jerusalem, where he studied for six years at the local religious elementary school named after Rabbi Uziel. In 1966, the family moved to Ramat Gan, and Shimon attended two years of the Maalot religious school in Bnei Brak. In 1969 Simon enrolled at the Noam School in Pardes Hannah and completed high school four years later. Shimon became fond of his many friends for his kind and active character, who always said deeds instead of words. He was the active and active student in his class life at the Midrasha. Was one of the initiators and perpetrators of the operation against the German-Christian mission in the Binyamina-Zichron Yaakov area. Shimon has extraordinary courage, leadership ability, vision and resourcefulness. His friends recognized him as a healthy young man who knew no disease and pain. His teachers noted him as a young man of great character, who was meticulous in his commandments and kept HaKohenhood (Shimon was Cohen). Love people and welcome everyone. Shimon loved nature and disliked the material world and everything he saw as the distortion of truth. His favorite pastime was wandering around the country to know and learn its secrets. Mostly he toured the Judean Desert: the ancient splendor, solitude and distance from the city. The difficult challenge of climbing to the peaks and walking in the desert rivers captured his Lev. In the last year of his studies at the Midrasha, Shimon joined the Nahal Brigade in the framework of the Bnei Akiva movement, and in September Tishrei 5733, In the winter of that year, the members of the nucleus went on basic training, and at the end they came to the Nahal outpost in Kfar Darom. Shimon took a course for battalion saboteurs. He longed to serve in a selected paratroopers unit, where he would be able to utilize his personal skills and his love for the landscapes of the country and physical contact with its land. So he was a little disappointed. When he was assigned to the Armored Corps. In the course of time he learned that this force, which was ‘enforced’ on him, was not “square boxes,” as he put it, and that it gave a wonderful sense of power to the operators of the steel vehicle. He began to cherish his army. He passed a tank commander course. Completed successfully and promoted to the rank of sergeant. With the end of the operational service, Shimon returned with his friends to the Alumim group for the last term of the Seder, and he wanted to strengthen his ties with his friends and the agriculture and to find his rightful place in the group, All his hopes and expectations, which Shimon cultivated for himself, in consultation with his parents and in conversations with his close friends, were suddenly canceled and two weeks after his discharge from the active service – At the time of the Seder, Shimon fell in the performance of his duties – on the 14th of Elul 1975 (19.8.1975). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his parents and sister. The bereaved parents commemorated his memory by establishing a scholarship fund for students at the Midreshet Noam in Pardes Hannah.