Lazar, Alexander (Alex)
Son of Mordechai and Miriam. He was born on February 5, 1956, in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood of Haifa. He studied at the Jezreeliya elementary school. Along with his dedication to studies, he was keen on sports, especially football. He initiated and organized friends for age and class for a mini-soccer team. Trips were also part of his hobbies. Alongside these was ‘swallowing’ many books too. At the end of his basic studies, Alexander hesitated about whether to go to the military boarding school near the Reali school in Haifa or to attend a technical school. Under the influence of the family, he chose the second method and studied for one year at the secondary vocational school in Samet, but it soon became apparent to him that it was not this – he was attracted to his great love for nature and landscape and decided that he was in an agricultural school. In the agricultural school in Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, and was well-received in the new society and was recognized as a representative and speaker of the students, who excelled in natural sciences and mathematics, and showed a clear tendency toward the exact sciences. In 1975, Alex enlisted, without hesitation, into the Paratroopers Brigade, although he was also offered to join the air force. He has already completed a parachuting course – after basic training – he was awarded a high rank and a rank of corporal, but he is afraid that at the end of the course he will not be returned to his company with whom he has close ties. In the course of which he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and when the Litani operation began, Alex’s unit was one of the first to cross the Lebanese border to shake the barrels of murderers. “It was in an open area in south Lebanon, about one kilometer west of Qanas, by battalion traffic. They spotted a terrorist squadron in the branches south-west of the axis. He was honest and decent in his relations with his friends and served as one of the pillars of the company’s staff, who served as a member of the company, in her”. He was 22 years old when he fell in combat on 10 March 1978. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, leaving behind his parents and two sisters.
