Naftali, Frida

Daughter of Moses and Rebecca. She was born on September 7, 1952 in Jerusalem and studied at the David Remez Elementary School in Jerusalem and completed her elementary studies in Tel Aviv at the David Yellin School and continued at the vocational school In Jaffa in a three-year course. From the beginning she had no particular inclination to the drawing profession, but over time her interest in it began to grow. Frida excelled as a disciplined and diligent student and, thanks to her stubbornness and diligence, achieved great achievements and successfully passed the final exams. She was a member of the youth movements Hatzofim and Hanoar Haoved. During her spare time, she was engaged in knitting and was especially successful in embroidery. After completing her high school and professional studies as a machine-racer, she worked as a technical technician in a factory in Tel Aviv for about a year until she was recruited. Frida was kind and sympathetic to all her friends and was always ready to help others. The owner of the factory said about her that he had not met in all the decades that the factory was a working wife like her, devoted, loyal, gifted and sociable. Frida was full of faith and confidence in a better future, and her faith caught up with everyone around her. She never complained about her difficult life-materially-and encouraged her father, who was worried. Her outstanding qualities were the result of her education. Frida was drafted into the IDF in mid-August 1970, and during her short service – just over a year – she used every moment of her vacation to help the family in her distress. She fell in line with her friend Shiri Horowitz during an exercise with her staff in the El Arish area, only 19 years old. Was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, and her commander wrote a letter of condolence to her parents and family: “Frida was in one word: ‘gold.’ She had gold, gold, and golden hands. Disciplined and quiet, and always did her job with dedication and perseverance, and with the best of all, we know: his wealth is the subject of man, and Frida was rich in taste, opinion and approach. Her modest home did not stop her from anything, but the opposite; She drew from her father’s house the high qualities – – – Frida and Shiri loved each other and together they marched along the military track and did not part in the last diary either. “