Larba, Issachar Dov

Ben Hanna Leah and Alexander Joseph. Was born on Saturday, May 31, 1975, the “Behaalotcha” affair in Sydney, Australia. The eldest son of a family of five, was named for his grandfather, his father’s father. At the age of nine Dov visited his family for the first time in Israel and fell in love with her. Four years later, he and his family immigrated to Israel. He spent his first fourteen years in Sydney, where he attended elementary and junior high school at the Moriah School. Dov excelled in the fields of computers, literature and mathematics, and used to write poetry full of emotion and humor. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement in the city, and was very active in sports, especially in cricket and tennis. After his family immigrated to Israel in March 1989, Dov continued his studies at Yeshivat Noam in Jerusalem, then at the Himmelfarb High School and at the Kol HaMavashr Yeshiva in the city. He volunteered in MDA and the Civil Guard, and was an active member of the Ezra youth movement and was an avid enthusiast who soon acquired the Hebrew language and became a well-integrated member of Israeli society. He was a regular and devoted brother to his sisters and brothers, a man of high intelligence and ambition, and once a fortnight he used to donate his time to visit nursing homes, and when he was asked he never refused to complete a prayer minyan. . He challenged the low profile he had set for him, and in August 1994 he was drafted into the IDF, and after his basic training he was sent to serve at the Navy base in Eilat. During his short service at the base, he stood out for his personal level and for the high motivation he discovered: On the eve of Shabbat, the “Vayera” affair, Dov fell in the line of duty. Was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem and left behind two parents, Azriel and Moshe Eitan A twin brother and sister, Shulamit and Meira, who were born ten months before his fall, Dov helped to raise them and loved them very much.After his death, a fund was established in his name to help young families, and in the new branch of the Ezra movement in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, His name is in a reference room for instructors. His name was also immortalized in a number of sacred books that were placed in the beit midrash in the “Gold Institute”.