Leibowitz, Hagai

Son of Nathan and Chana, was born on June 26, 1947 in Tel Aviv, where he began studying at the Ahad Ha’am elementary school in Hadera and then at the Ort vocational school in Netanya He was a member of Hapoel in Hadera for a section of soccer and was a Maccabi basketball player, and in May 1965 he was drafted into the IDF and was assigned to the Armored Corps. For about two and a half years, Hagai faithfully fulfilled the various roles assigned to him, and as a result showed exemplary devotion and responsibility, as the commander of his unit wrote in a letter of condolence to his parents after they fell, that he fell during his service near Mikhmoret on 9 March 1968. To rest in the Hadera cemetery.