Kenigsbuch, Shlomo (“Shlomik”)

Son of-Mordechai-Zvi and Tanya. He was born on December 11, 1946 in Kfar Saba. Where he completed his studies at the Bar-Ilan religious elementary school and continued his high school studies at the “Noam” school in Pardes Hanna. He belonged to the “Bnei Akiva” movement and participated in all the movement’s activities as an apprentice and counselor. Even during his studies in Pardes Hanna, he did not sever his ties with the branch, and at every opportunity he visited him and inquired about what was going on inside him. After completing his studies in Midrashia and until his enlistment in the IDF, he studied at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He was lively and energetic, awake and lively, active and active. From the first days of her studies in her midrashim, he stood out in his cheerfulness and good Lev, which soon turned into love and acceptance of everything. On days off, he would invite his classmates to visit him at home. He was willing to help others with good advice and his friends would turn to him when he greeted them all with a smile. One detail should be noted: On one of his few vacations he found out that the father of one of his friends had fallen ill and that the grain crops that were his only source of income were in danger. Soon Shlomo went there, took off his uniform, and for a whole week he gave his hand in collecting the crops and preparing them for marketing. After completing his studies in the midrashiya, he decided to join the ranks of the IDF and in November 1964 he went to join the recruits and found himself in a combat unit, knowing that he was about to reach a holy goal, and never complained of the harsh conditions of service, And instead of the complaint he could tell about the Yaffa aspects of the service, such as the beauty of a landscape, where he encountered training, etc. The “talmid shacham” in which he did not give him rest even then and when he received a Sabbath break from the army, sometimes after weeks of arduous training, He studied the subject of the Talmud and devoted all his energy to the IDF and thus progressed as part of his military service, completed a tank commander course and then completed a course – Officers and transferred to the armored patrol. In the reconnaissance unit, Shlomo found what he was looking for in the army. Every holiday he would tell how Yaffa our country was; There was not one land in the Negev that he did not know. As his release approached, he decided on his next steps in civilian life. He wanted to learn chemistry at Bar-Ilan University – and so he wrote to his sister in a letter from the date of the outbreak of the fighting, but Shlomo did not succeed in fulfilling his ambitions. Two days before his official discharge from the army, the call-up began and, due to the tense situation, remained in his patrol company on permanent terms and the company commander burst into the Rafah area. At the end of the occupation of El-Arish (at the Rafiah junction), his caterpillar was directly hit and thus died; He was hospitalized at Beersheva Hospital, and the next day, on the fifth day of the fighting, he died on 9 June 1967. He was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and later transferred to the eternal cemetery In Kfar Sava, his brother Shimon fell on the first day of the battles, his name was commemorated in the journal of Bar-Ilan University and the “Niv Midrashiya” was published in “The Armored Patrol” by members of Kibbutz Kefar Menahem, – “Seeds” – and in the journal of Bar-Ilan University his name was immortalized.In the book “Maalot Giborim”, edited by Israel Erlich, several pages were dedicated to his memory and told about him. And families in Kfar Saba in memory of the fallen in six days and complete them.