Malka, Abraham

Son of Yosef and Lily. He was born in 1951 in Casablanca, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1956. The family settled in Kfar Uriya, a moshav in the Jerusalem corridor, and Avraham attended the Tal Shahar elementary school in the area. He played for the local football team and was a member of Hapoel’s youth football team, and he helped his parents with agricultural work as much as he could to make it easier for them.after completing his elementary studies he chose to continue his studies at Acre’s military academy, Two and a half years later he left the boarding school and returned to his parents’ home, where he continued to study in the evening and work in the days That time also sport. Abraham was drafted into the IDF in May 1969 and volunteered for the paratroopers corps. On 17 November 1969, Avraham fell in the Jordan Valley in an encounter with the enemy and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, where he wrote to the bereaved family a letter of condolence on behalf of the Paratroopers and their commanders, “Every trip,” the commander wrote, “would help his weak friends and for every mission he was assigned, he would be the first to volunteer. In the last battle, too, it was Avraham who first discovered the enemy and opened fire on him and during the battle he fell. “The letter ends with the following:” We share your sorrow and sorrow for the devoted son who was taken from you; But we share the belief that Abraham has fallen for a great and lofty goal so that his family and all the people of Israel can continue to live as a free people in their own country. “His name was donated by Kfar Uriya to the soccer team from Moshav Tarom in the Jerusalem corridor, which won the tournament. Books in his name and in his memory.