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Mizrahi, Eliahu (“Eli”)

Mizrahi, Eliahu (“Eli”)


Son of Yona and Tzipora. He was born on July 1, 1934 in Jerusalem. In his youth he was a member of the Ha – Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement and the Nachshonim movement. Was an avid sports enthusiast and his physical fitness was developed by wrestling training and by playing football. He graduated from the “Alliance Israelite Universelle” elementary school. Due to the principles of pioneering fulfillment, which he had been educated in the youth movement, he went to Kibbutz Beit Alpha for a period of time, after completing his studies at the school. However, in the struggle between these principles and the responsibility for the livelihood of his mother and younger brothers, his duty was to prevail, and he returned to the city and settled to support the family. He was drafted into the IDF at the end of December 1951. He was first assigned to the Golani Brigade and later to the Jerusalem Brigade, serving loyally and fulfilling his duties to the satisfaction of his commanders. During the days of the Six Day War, when some of his friends received a summons, and he had not yet received it, he ran from place to place to see where his order was. The entire nation and its comrades-in-arms over the victory He admired the tradition of Israel and its sanctities, especially the Western Wall, and was deeply attached to it, and he wondered about a person who was not enthusiastic and Simcha about the Wall, and whose son and two daughters he tried to educate in the spirit of these values ​​and to assimilate Including the tradition of Judaism, was a loving husband and devoted father, loved by all his acquaintances and friends, and at the end of July 1970 he was called up for an active reserve duty for five weeks and on the 27th of Tammuz 5707 (27.7.1970) , A son and two daughters, as well as a mother, brothers and sisters, with whom he was deeply attached. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. His friends and admirers of Jerusalemites accompanied him on his last journey. A letter of condolence sent by the defense minister to the bereaved family states: “Elijah was an excellent soldier, a model friend and loved by those who knew him.” The commander of his unit wrote in a letter of condolence to the widow: “During the period of his service, your husband fulfilled his duties faithfully and devotedly. His name was immortalized in a memorial to the victims of the Jordan Valley; His mother donated a velvet curtain to the synagogue of the Sindur congregation, the five books of the Torah “Law for Israel” and lamps

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