Meshulam, Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Malbina (Mali) and Eliahu, was born on October 16, 1954 in Nesher and attended the Nesher elementary school and the vocational high school in Haifa. He was a diligent student and excelled mainly in the professional field. He was active in the Gadna and was a sports enthusiast for his various branches, and Yitzhak was a friendly and friendly boy, although he was sometimes moody, and his friends, who knew him well, respected his desire to be alone in his desire to be withdrawn. He was an honest and conscientious man, and was worried about his family because he knew the meaning of being an only son, and he was tall and solid, tall and tall, and he was drafted into the IDF in early February 1973 and volunteered for the paratroopers, Even though he was the only child. After completing basic training, he was assigned to a parachute infantry unit and was an excellent soldier and devoted to his role as a young soldier who dreamed of serving in the infantry and was able to convince his parents after a long and stubborn struggle , Because he was very attached to his parents and always tried not to be surprised, and even made a point of phoning. And to write home, even from distant places and in difficult conditions, he was grateful to his parents for refusing to be And in the Yom Kippur War, Yitzhak took part in the battles of containment against the Egyptians in Sinai, and on October 11, 1973, his unit was ambushed Of Egyptian soldiers on the way to Ras Sudar, and when he went to rescue wounded soldiers from the armored personnel carrier, and he himself was already wounded, Yitzhak was hit and killed. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. After being shot down, he was given the rank of corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved parents, the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur, wrote: “During the inspection and reading of the material, my son’s picture was presented to me: an exemplary warrior and parachutist, whom the spirit of volunteerism and the will of action put him at the head of the line. The parents have published a pamphlet in their memory and donated a music hall and a sports hall bearing his name to the school where he studied – Beit Yehoshua in Nesher.