Lissman, Roberto-Philippa

Was born on September 20, 1958, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he grew up in a Zionist home and received his education at a Jewish and Zionist school in which he studied elementary and high school. He went to Israel as a volunteer in 1978. He spent five months at Kibbutz Gaash and worked in various branches of the agriculture, then went to visit his mother in the United States where he worked and made enough money to return to his hometown of Buenos Aires. , In his hometown, decided that he wanted to immigrate to Israel. One day I said to myself: Robbie Lissman American? – it does not sound good. I decided to return to Israel, to Kibbutz Gaash, but this time not as a volunteer. There was a connection between me and the place and the people. I went up and went to the Interior Ministry to get an Israeli identity card. It was close to me, belongs to me. Suddenly I knew it. And I understood that only through military service would I really enter Israeli society. “In December 1981, Roberto enlisted and volunteered to serve in the Golani Brigade, after which he sent a picture of him proudly to his mother in the United States. In the course of his service, Roberto paid a Hebrew ulpan, and when the Peace for Galilee war broke out, Roberto was with the force that fought in Beaufort, advancing on the eastern axis, and on the course of battles he reached the outskirts of Beirut. For two months Roberto struggled for his life with his mother at his bedside, and on the day He died of his wounds at the age of 23. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon wrote to his mother about Roberto’s bravery in the combat force: “He was an excellent soldier, a Zionist, a new immigrant, loved by all His commanders. His family, Kibbutz Gaash and his friends in Israel, published a pamphlet in his memory in the United States and in Argentina, and he left behind a mother, two sisters and a brother.