Kenigsbuch, Shimon

Shimon, son of Mordechai-Zvi and Tanya Kenigsbuch, was born on the 24th of Iyar, 5639 (13.5.1939) in Tel Aviv. He studied at the “Yeshiva” in Kfar HaRoeh, where he was a member of the Bnei Akiva movement and went on a mission to South America, to Brazil and then to Uruguay. In November 1959 he was drafted into the IDF. In the Six-Day War, on the first day of its battles, on the 26th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), Shimon fell in a battle held at the Maazar outpost in the Gilboa Mountains. He left a pregnant wife and two children. The third son was born about a month and a half after his father died and was called Shimon-Shlomo, after his father and uncle, who also fell in that war. He was buried in the military cemetery in Nahariya and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the cemetery in Kfar Saba.