Mutzafi, Raphael

Son of Moshe and Ilana. Was born on April 25, 1950, in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and the Iraqi government allowed its Jewish citizens to leave the country on condition that they renounce their citizenship permanently.The Mutzafi family waited impatiently for the permit to immigrate to Israel. They moved to Lod and from there were transferred to the Sha’ar Ha’Aliyah camp at night, and after a week’s stay at Sha’ar HaAliya, the family moved to Binyamina and a few months later moved to Jerusalem. Raphael began studying at the Yahalom School in Ramat Gan, but at first he had a hard time studying, but every year he fell ill He was a diligent and diligent student and completed high school successfully, and Rafael’s hobbies were basketball and chess, and he was a student at the Dvir Gymnasium in Ramat Gan. He was very fond of his parents and was very attached to them, and his parents were willing to do everything for him and even help him continue his studies at the university, and he was fond of all his friends and especially his teachers. -knowledge. “He was a good friend and always showed willingness and willingness to help, because he was modest and timid, but he never refused to take on a role that his friends or teachers placed on him. He was always Simcha to tell me about himself, his aspirations and plans for the future, and his problems and dilemmas, and he always acknowledged with his warm, smiling eyes, so that his personality crystallized from a modest and shy boy to a young man with views and views who confidently ruled his future. During the Six-Day War, Rafael volunteered for national service and treated IDF casualties at Tel Hashomer Hospital, where he studied at the Air Force Technical School in Haifa and was drafted into the IDF in May 1970. He was a model soldier and filled all A position assigned to him in full, according to his commanders. He was meticulous about keeping the secrets of the Israel Defense Forces, and none of his family knew that his job involved flying, and he wanted to finish his regular service and continue his studies at the university, but he did not get it. , Along with nine of his comrades, in the course of his duties. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. “Rafi was a dedicated soldier for his job and his comrades, and he fulfilled every role he was assigned,” the unit commander wrote after his death in a letter of condolence to the family. A memorial corner for Raphael and his friends was established in their unit; The unit also published an album in their memory; At the Dikla beach in the Rafah entrance, which was named after Raphael and his friends, “Hof Hane’ara”, not far from where it fell, a huge granite rock was erected in memory of them – The nearby moshav is named “Nativ Ha’asara”; The story of their lives and deaths was commemorated in a book that was published in their memory by the families and called “the enrichment”; A Torah scroll was written in his memory and was put in the Nava Tehila synagogue in Ramat Gan