Lipschitz, Eliezer-Meir

Eliezer-Meir, the youngest son of Rosalie and Naphtali, was born on May 13, 1949, in Haifa. He studied at the Carmel Elementary School in Haifa and continued his religious studies at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar HaRoeh, in the real world, and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. Eliezer – Meir was drafted into the IDF at the end of September 1967, and together with his comrades in the movement’s nucleus Dov serve in the Nahal Brigade. With them went to basic training, successfully completed a skydiving course and went Lsl”t Kibbutz wells Isaac. When he returned to operational employment, Eliezer-Meir completed a course on infantry relations, and during the entire period of his service, Eliezer-Meir was fond of his friends and commanders and his certificate of discharge from the regular service was even described as “very good.” At the end of September 1970, Meir studied at the Jerusalem College of Technology, specializing in optoelectronics, and was sometimes called up for reserve duty and made him a liaison with a reconnaissance company of the Paratroopers Brigade, On Yom Kippur, on the 15th of Tishrei 5740 (October 15, 1973), as our forces prepared to cross the Suez Canal, Eliezer-Meir made a link to the company’s half-tracks, The tour. When they reached a distance of half a kilometer from the Suez Canal, the Egyptians began to fire mortars on the check mark. A mortar shell hit Eliezer-Meir and he was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolences to the family, his commander, who was with him during the shelling, wrote that “Meir was diligent and diligent, full of energy and initiative. Each role was performed with devotion and with all the Lev and always swept around by all those around him. I am proud of the greatness that I was privileged to be commanded to command excellent soldiers like Meir and his friends, and I share with sorrow and sorrow our comrades who gave their lives and did not return from the Holocaust”A tree in memory was planted in the Forest of Defenders by the Ministry of Defense – the Department for the Commemoration of the Soldier, and after his fall, the book” The Yom Kippur War “by Rabbi M. Kasher was dedicated to his memory; The High School of Technology published in its memory a book called Yad Ram, which includes writings that Eliezer-Meir left, articles and assessments in his memory; His friends founded and named after him the Meir Institute, whose goal is to bring the Jewish religion and tradition to all levels of the nation. The Institute flourishes and conducts classes and courses at its home in Jerusalem and in branches around the country.