Mizrahi, Nissim

Nissim, son of Ovadia and Rosa Mizrahi, was born on March 23, 1937 in Jerusalem. He completed his studies at the Nachshon Elementary School. He then joined the youth group at Kibbutz Naan, where he spent four years and, encouraged by his adoptive father on the kibbutz, studied plumbing and became a plumber. Nissim was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in January 1956 and served in the Maintenance Corps.Fell while carrying out his duties while transporting ammunition from Sinai to northern Israel as part of Operation Kadesh. Nissim was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He was eighteen years old. Survived by his parents, four brothers and four sisters.