Makmal, Nissim (Edmond)

Son of Zvi (Salach) and Shlomit (Najia). He was born on May 5, 1948 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In 1950, with the signal for the immigration of the Jews of Babylon to their country, his family left for Israel and arrived with Nissim, who was then two and a half years old. The family lived in Kfar Ganim in Petah Tikva. Where he went to elementary school and then continued at the kibbutz Dafna common school, but decided that he would not return to town after graduating from high school, because he preferred the life of the kibbutz to urban life. After consulting with his parents and relatives, he went to Kibbutz Manara, where he found his place and adapted himself to the place. He bought friends among the veteran members of the kibbutz. Where he also graduated from high school, which began at Kibbutz Dafna. But so far Nissim had reached the age of enlistment and in November 1965 he was drafted into the IDF because he loved the homeland and defended it.the saboteurs did not give him peace and as a paratrooper he was very satisfied with taking part in retaliatory raids and raids, The army had impressed him with seriousness, but the joke was always in his mouth, and he was Simcha for every action and would never give it up because the security of the state and its citizens was not In his eyes and in the army through his responsibility and boldness in days of battles, he was known among his relatives and acquaintances He had to return to the land of Manara, where he was a friend, and was about to be counted again with the builders, the groves and the planters, and he loved life, the place he belonged to and the branch in which he worked – even during his service he would come to see what was happening in the farm and orchard. He returned to live in it, to participate in the work and in his social life, he was not able to see that on 27 May 1968, in an encounter with a squad of saboteurs infiltrating from Jordan north of the Allenby Bridge, Nissim fell in battle and was brought to eternal rest in Beit- The cemetery in Petach Tikvah After the fall, a pamphlet called “Nissim” was published in Kibbutz Manara.