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Kunstok, Yaakov (“Kobi”)

Kunstok, Yaakov (“Kobi”)


Their son was the firstborn of Moshe HaCohen and Nechama. Born on 29.12.1950 in Hadera, he studied at the Ahad Ha’am elementary school and continued his high school studies at the Hadera High School, where he was an outstanding student who had the patience to learn and to achieve progress. During his high school years, Yaakov was cheerful, sociable and kind, and was always willing to help his friends, to help and to do for them, and to show respect for his parents. His home was always open to his friends who loved him very much, he was a member of the youth movement of “Maccabi Hatzair” Sports, especially gymnastics and basketball ball. Middle School Youth Corps and participated in after-school business practice. He was a fresh, energetic boy, and he wanted to volunteer for a special unit in which he hoped to do his duty. Before he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, he spoke of his desire to serve in a volunteer unit and fulfilled his dream: Every soldier must do everything in his power to serve the IDF loyally. Kobi was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early February 1969, and since then his face has become more serious than before, and the danger he and his fellow members of the unit were aware of was obvious, but it is doubtful whether his parents felt the change. He was so devoted to them that he was proud of them, and when he came home he made an effort to be as cheerful as ever, and his character did not change in the army, because he was very well-behaved. 1970), Corporal Ya’akov fell in the line of duty, riding a mine in the area of ​​the Suez Canal and was brought to eternal rest in the Hadera cemetery.

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