Mazuz, Haim (Huta)

Son of Metok and Treki. He was born on 19 April 1938 in Tunis. He completed three grades of a French elementary school in Morocco and then studied religious studies at the Talmud Torah school there. He immigrated to Israel in 1962 and worked in the electric company in Ashdod-Yam. In December of that year he was drafted into the IDF, and after completing his regular army service, he was called from time to time to the flag: Before the Six-Day War he was on reserve duty and on the fourth day of the battles, In Gaza, he died, leaving a wife and five children, the youngest of whom was a two-year-old infant, to be buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and later transferred to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. To the family in its name and its commanders, Haim was described as a courageous soldier who performed every role with devotion and loyalty, loved and admired by all his friends and commanders. Israel Erlich, several pages were dedicated to him.