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Kritzman, Guy Shmuel

Kritzman, Guy Shmuel


Ben Miriam and Mordechai. Born on 17.3.1972 in Kibbutz Tel Katzir, brother of Galia and Hadas Guy studied at the Kedmat Kinneret Elementary School in Kibbutz Ein Gev and at the Beit Yerah Regional High School, which is shared by the communities of the Jordan Valley. He was red-haired, black-eyed, smiling, always smiling, fire and brimstone, redhead for everything, stubborn, always knowing everything and never compromising, his friend Tomer was good at describing him: “Red, I remember Everything, all the steaks, the steals and the cart, from here to there and everywhere, with a bottle of beer in hand, and a cigarette, always a cigarette. And everywhere you take with you laughter, jokes, shouts, noise, volunteers and friends, friends, friends … Your life was a sequence of fun, exhaustion and joy, one who knew how to drink the time and the place with great gazelles. “Guy was a talented boy, Who has never been fully realized, who has the ability to think and analyze, who rebelled against the framework and despised achievement, receives an outstanding cadet in the Gadna in the 11th grade, but when you want to give him the certificate, you discover that he has already fled home. They send you to a commanders’ course and you take excellent grades at the entrance exam, and after a day you go from there. There are friends. “At the end of 11th grade, he decided to abandon the school framework and devote himself entirely to work in the field of bananas and field crops. Guy liked the kibbutz, without ideology, without wondering about a way. Belonging was deep inside. His friends say that even when he arrived at nine in the morning for a vacation from the army, by ten o’clock he was already in the field. At the beginning of May 1990, Guy was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the Artillery Corps, where he completed basic training and was sent to an artillery course. Guy was assigned to serve in the Artillery Corps, where he liked the service and saw it as a mission to be filled in. Guy served in Lebanon in operational activities and according to his commander, he performed his duties “He was not part of the battery, because he was holding the battery in the difficult days.” Guy supported, helped and encouraged his friends on the battery when he felt the distress of one of them: “For you the bottle of beer was the personal weapon , The broad and constant smile was the belt and the earring in the right ear served as a cap, in a moment of truth you would give it all. ” In the past two years, Katherine and Guy have become the hotest love story in Tel Katzir, called a husband and wife and treated like a married couple On April 23, 1993, Guy went on vacation A few days later he was supposed to be discharged from the IDF. However, on Friday, April 27, 1993, Guy was killed in a work accident in the wheat field of his kibbutz, where he was laid to rest in his home, Tel Katzir, and left his parents, two sisters and a friend. “No one here believes that the guy who could make a publicity trip to life, with the big smile and the red freckles on his face, that this guy will not be Here more. He went to work with a smile, went to sleep with his smile, and if you asked him why he kept smiling he would show his teeth white and again Smiling. “That was his hallmark,” says Lior,”According to the smile, you could tell if Guy was around,” he says, and he tells how Guy managed to score goals in a Friday soccer game on the kibbutz barefoot, and all the players in high boots did not score at all. Shoes were rarely seen on his feet. Guy liked to feel the ground on his feet, feel the ground. “Freedom is all the people need in life,” he said, and that was the motto of his short life.

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