Malka, Yom Tov (“Toby”)

Son of Eliyahu and Rachel. He was born in Morocco in 1949. After completing one year of high school, he immigrated to Israel with his family. Was a very devoted son to his parents. Already in his youth he had a very evening voice and would have delighted all his listeners with Hebrew songs. He loved singing and playing the guitar. Although he did not teach singing at the Chabad yeshiva, he tried to learn and continued to do so until his dying day, and he became friends with a few friends, and together with them he established a katzav band that was active in Netanya. He worked in a diamond polishing factory in Netanya and was popular with his colleagues and managers, who was known as “Toby, the voice of the nightingale.” Before he enlisted in the IDF, he devoted his spare time to writing poems (which are kept in his parents’ home to this day). These were love songs, the love of life both Simcha and bitter, and songs of relaxation and longing. Toby was drafted into the IDF in February 1968. He broke up with his friends, but his friendship with them continued, and every time he took a vacation he took the guitar and went to spend time with them. “He was always able to say the encouraging word in difficult moments and in his lexicon, the word” desperation “was not found, and his comrades in the army admired him for his patience and his joy of life: One day he was seriously injured at the Mitla junction in Sinai, and on June 18, 1969, Eight days after he was wounded and fought with the mortal man at the central hospital in Be’er Sheva, Yomtov died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. The deputy battalion commander took leave of him on behalf of the battalion’s officers and soldiers, and said that he “was accepted and loved by his comrades and was a loyal and precious person. With the completion of the training period, Yom-Tov became a combat soldier, a fighter who, in a hard and arduous daily work, at constant risk and against enemy fire, served his people and his homeland. The fortifications that were placed in the Sinai with the participation of Yom Tov are the ones that today give security to our soldiers and turn the Suez Canal into a strong outpost of the IDF against the Egyptian enemy. ” After his fall, his comrades published a booklet in his name and in his memory.