Mazor (Mazorovich), Chaim

Chaim, son of Zippora and Ze’ev, was born on February 2, 1943, in Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, where he studied in elementary school and high school in the kibbutz. He was fourteen years old when his father suddenly died, and as a son, he felt responsible for his brother, Yossi Gadi, and his younger sister, Batya, who had always been a devoted son to his mother and helped her with advice and action. In his high school years, he joined the Hapoel HaPoel football team and excelled in his ability to play and in a spirit of sportsmanship, and his name was also famous outside the borders of the kibbutz and his home, which is located on Kibbutz Givat Haim After completing his studies in the summer of 1961, he was accepted as a member of the kibbutz, and together with his group he left for a year of work and study at Yad Hannah. Haim was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1962 and volunteered for the Armored Corps, where he completed a tank course and graduated with a high grade (91) and served as a tank driver, and was known as an excellent and dedicated soldier. At the end of April 1965, Haim completed his compulsory service and immediately returned to his home in the Givat Haim Meuhad farm, where he worked for a year in the cowshed and vegetable gardens, and did his work with dedication and without fatigue. And worked in the Emek Hefer area. “It was natural to see Haimka as a driver,” Yad said His hands. “The love of the Haggadah was inherited from father to son, and Haimah” softly “paved the roads of Israel and loved his work.” Haim was called for periods of reserve duty, served as a guide to driving and handling the vehicle and participated as a tank driver in the Six Day War. He was awarded the “Six Day War.” After the war he married his childhood friend, Rachel, to the wife, the two met each other when Rachel was living in Givat Haim, as part of the National Service. May 1972, her brother Lior was born. Haim was a father in love, his wife says. He took pride in Galit’s beauty and played with her for hours on end. “After the birth of Galit, Haimke dreamed of a son … a son who could play football with him, a son who could share his more obscure experiences with him.” The full momentum of life was when the Yom Kippur War broke out and tightened the thread of his life. At the end of Yom Kippur Haim was called to his armored unit and sent to the southern front. He participated as a tank driver in the battles of braking on the Sinai front and his friends tell of his courage and warm and heartfelt attitude to his comrades during the difficult times of battle. In the battle that took place on the 8th of Tishrei 5740 (October 8, 1973), his tank was hit directly by an anti-tank missile in the area of ​​the “lexicon-tartor”. Haim was seriously wounded in the head and died of his wounds on Saturday, October 13, 1973. He was brought to eternal rest in the Givat Haim Meuhad cemetery. He left behind a wife, a son and a daughter, a mother, two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “Your loved one was an old soldier in the unit, and his close friends spoke about his great devotion and his belief in the justice of our struggle.”