Mikha, Yitzhak-Shmuel

Yitzhak-Shmuel (Izzy), son of Hila and Menahem, was born in Tel Aviv on September 15, 1939. He attended the Tachkemoni religious primary school and continued his high school in an evening school. In his youth he discovered literary tendencies and left behind a large collection of manuscripts, he loved nature, and especially liked to photograph nature landscapes, and spent many hours working on his collection of stamps. He loved his country and its landscapes, and on vacation he took his family for trips around the country, leaving behind a large collection of films and slides he had taken on his many walks, and his wife and children loved him and he gave them the best of his time and energy. He loved and succeeded in his work too, and even was appointed the plant manager. During the Yom Kippur War, he served as a tank commander on the Sinai front, and in a battle that took place near Kantara on October 18, 1973, a shrapnel hit his head and was taken by helicopter to the hospital in Beer Sheva. He died and was laid to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Shaul cemetery and left behind a wife, son and daughter, father, mother and two sisters, and was promoted to the rank of captain.