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Nachum, Avraham (Lulu)

Nachum, Avraham (Lulu)


Abraham, son of Giselle and Ziol, was born on July 15, 1945, in Tunis, Tunisia, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1956. He began studying at the school in Tel Mond, where his family settled, and then attended the Katznelson High School in Kfar Saba and successfully passed his matriculation exams. Abraham, known as Lulu, absorbed cultural values ​and a desire to increase his education and knowledge. His mother instilled in him the love of reading masterpieces and studies, and thus became proficient in many areas. He was an outstanding student and interested in fields of knowledge that went beyond the boundaries of the material taught at the school. During his spare time, he painted oil paintings and left behind a large collection of photographs, attesting to his great talent and a special sense of beauty and aesthetics. Avraham was drafted into the IDF in mid-May 1963 and served as a truck driver under the command of the Nahal Brigade. At the end of December 1965, Avraham was released from regular service and transferred to the Armored Corps. In his reserve unit he was trained as a half-track driver, and after his discharge he decided to dedicate his life to people who had been deprived by society and worked diligently to reduce the social gap. A way to return to society and to be like any other person, so he made great efforts to rehabilitate youth who had been reduced to crime, and his followers in the institution loved him, they trusted him, they would come to him in times of distress, and he listened patiently to each and every one of them. And after consideration and thought he would offer a solution to every problem, after two years He decided to complete his studies and to study at the Social Work Department of the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Social Sciences, he was not diligent in his studies, but thanks to his quick grasp, his ability to think, his ability to analyze and to express himself clearly, he achieved great achievements. He established a friendship and relationship with the lecturers and his fellow students, who was assisted by his knowledge and experience during the course of his work with juvenile delinquents, who continued to express his warm feelings in the pictures he painted. He married his girlfriend Frida, and after graduating from university he moved to Kiryat Shmona with his wife and son Gal. Abraham, who saw himself as a fighter for the underprivileged and the weak, took over the management of the welfare department in Kiryat Shmona. The year he worked there was a year of unceasing struggle for the public who needed his help. This year he invested great efforts and took full advantage of the resources available to him to help people who were on the fringes of society and to change their status so that they would become part of Israeli society that had previously rejected them. The love to every person, which was inherent in him, and his strong desire to help everyone who turned to him yielded fruit and all those who helped him loved him and respected him. His coworkers appreciated his devotion and loved him for his modesty and simplicity. One of them testified that he was a brilliant young man, resourceful and clever, who had a future ahead of him. His fall in battle took him away from many people who needed his help. The enemy who hit him on the battlefield hit a man who fought courageously on another front – the front against the social gap, the distortions and the discrimination. During the Yom Kippur War, his unit participated in the battles of containment and infiltration against the Syrians in the Golan Heights. On October 8, 1973, his half-track was hit by enemy shelling in the Tel Jukhadar area, and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Tel Mond, leaving behind a wife and son, parents, two brothers And a sister who, after his fall, was promoted to the rank of sergeant. the commander of the unit wrote to the bereaved family: “In Lulu’s fall, in this war, you lost a loved one, and we, his comrades in the unit, lost a dear and devoted friend. “The local council of Tel Mond published a pamphlet in memory of its sons who fell in the battle, and spoke about his character.

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