Lahav (Kaminkovski), Eliyahu

Eliahu, son of Chana and Moshe, was born on December 22, 1949 in Kfar Saba, his parents, Holocaust survivors, were interned in a camp in Cyprus and after their release, they lived in Ramle. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and later joined the Scouts movement and participated in the Ramat Gan Youth Orchestra, where he was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, After completing elementary school, he decided to go to the military boarding school near the Reali School in Haifa, where he took the entrance exams, successfully passed the academic exams, He spent three years learning there until he decided that the career army was not his destiny and he left Since graduating from the army academy Eli was a counselor in the Scout Movement and joined the Nahal Brigade. Eliahu was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1967 and assigned to the Nahal Brigade. After completing basic training, he volunteered to take a paratrooper course, successfully completed it, and went out with the wings of a parachutist and the generation in the red beret. He continued with a combat paramedics course, a liaison course and a liaison course, and during his entire service in the IDF, Eli maintained close contact with the house. At every opportunity, he would call home to inform him of his safety and soothe his worried parents. After every operation he took part in, he quickly informed them that everything had gone well. When necessary, he did not refrain from taking leave to help them and to calm them down he would sometimes jump home for a few hours. Then he would say, “Do you mind having a bath and having dinner with you?” At the beginning of August 1970, Eli was released from regular service. A few days after liberation, he went to Italy to study medicine. He was admitted to the University of Pavia, and twice a year he came home on leave. Always after the end of a vacation, he drove sadly back. In the summer of 1973 he came to my house and when the Yom Kippur War broke out, he rushed to offer his services in hospitals and was rejected, calling him to fly to Italy at night, but his decision was determined: “I can not travel. I can give so much and they need me so much, “he said, and he returned to the camp the next day and did not move until he was drafted as a medic and sent to Sinai, as he always told his parents that he was well and far from danger. And he was injured and fell when he helped the injured on October 17, 1973. He was brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery and left behind his parents and brother,