Kravchov, Anton Solomon

Ben Ella and Willa Levitt. He was born on February 13, 1971, in the Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. An only son to his parents. Anton was a healthy, good-hearted, curious boy who was interested in many areas. At the age of seven, he began to attend school. He read a lot, especially studying philosophy and history, and he loved theater and martial arts. When he was seventeen he was admitted to the College of Theater Studies, but at the end of the first semester he decided to go to Moscow. His interest in philosophy and history brought him closer to religion, and in Moscow Anton underwent circumcision and joined the yeshiva. During his studies in Moscow, Anton met the rabbi from the synagogue in Leningrad. The two became friends and Anton decided to continue his studies in Leningrad, where he continued to read and deepen and spent long hours in the library. It was the most interesting period of his life. Anton began to show interest in Israel, talked a lot about immigration, and persuaded his parents to immigrate to Israel. Already in the first few days after his family immigrated to Israel in December 1990, he began his studies at the Shamir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Anton loved Jerusalem with all his heart and soul, wanted to live in it and dreamed of expanding his education and studying at the Hebrew University of the Faculty of Philosophy. In the city he loved so much, he met his future wife, Vera, and in July 1992 they married and settled in Karmei Tzur. At the end of July 1992, Anton was conscripted into the IDF, where he was assigned to serve in the detention facility in Dahariya, and on the 17th of Sivan 5753 (June 6, 1993) Anton was killed while serving at the age of 22. Anton Shlomo was laid to rest in the cemetery Where his parents lived in Kiryat Shmona, where his parents lived, leaving behind a father and a wife during the fifth month of pregnancy, and his daughter Anna, who was born after his fall.