Levi, Jacob
Jacob, the son of her mother and Isaac, was born on the 9th of Kislev 5772 (2 December 1946) in Alessandria, Egypt. He was four when he immigrated with his parents and older sister to Israel, and the family settled in Bnei Brak. Jacob began to study at the Remez elementary school and soon became an excellent student with a better grasp of the subject than usual, and as a boy whom the study preferred and did not cause any difficulties at all. He was quiet and loved by all his friends; He never prevented them from helping with his studies and agreed to share with them the great knowledge he had acquired in the school, and more importantly, reading and studying. In his spare time, he liked to carve wood and create very Yaffa things. From an early age he was able to produce wonderful shapes from wood, he had a feeling about the material and with great patience worked and produced a work of art for his family and friends. In the test they had done while he was still in school, he turned out to be a gifted boy with excellent skills. At the time, Beit Hakerem was established in Jerusalem as the first institution of high school for gifted students, and Yaakov was one of the students who received a place of honor in an institution that absorbed boys and girls from all over the country. After four years of study in the biological track, in which he did not lose much of his gifted friends, he was among the graduates of the first cycle of the school. Yaakov was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-February 1965. After completing his basic training, he was sent to the Armored Corps School where he was ordained a tank driver and later served in the 7th Brigade and took part in the Six Day War. And towards the end of his regular service, he was placed in a preparatory unit for academic studies at the Technion, in which he said: “A soldier who is very diligent and disciplined, with great talent and resourcefulness. A modest soldier of the most honest character. “In August 1967, Yaakov was discharged from the regular army and assigned to a reserve unit, and was accepted to the Haifa Technion for chemical engineering, After his marriage at the beginning of 1972, he moved with his young wife, Mina, to live in Rishon Letzion, where Yaakov worked with his unit to Sinai and took part in the braking battles against the Egyptians After two days of When his unit tried to break into the Firdan Bridge on October 8, 1973, his tank was hit and he was killed and brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife, mother and two sisters. In his letter to the grieving family, his commander wrote: “Ya’akov, who served as a tank crew in an armored unit, was loved by his commanders and his comrades and fulfilled his duties impeccably.” In a book published by the 7th Brigade in memory of the soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War, there are words in memory of Yaakov.
