Na’im, Ezra (‘Uzi’)

Son of Binyamin and Ida. He was born in Beit Lid on September 8, 1955. He later moved to Kiryat-Gat, where he studied at the Masua Elementary School and at the ORT-Ashkelon vocational high school, Ezra was very devoted to his family, always helping his father with his work, not disdainful of any hard work, and as a religious family he was very careful to observe the commandments of the Torah, For many years he devoted his best time to training youth at the club in Beit Yitzhak and after completing his studies he continued to do so until his enlistment in the army Ezra was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1975, volunteered for the Nahal Brigade He was sent to the military section of the cemetery in Kiryat Gat, on the 30th of Tishrei 5736 (30.9.1975), and was brought to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Gat cemetery. He was followed by his parents, three brothers and three sisters, who fell on the day of the Bar-Mitzva celebration for his brother and another orphan son who lived in the family’s lap. . The family donated a Torah scroll in memory of the Beth Israel Synagogue in Kiryat Gat. At the initiative of the father – the family, his friends, the kibbutz and all those who remember him – a synagogue was built in Kiryat Gat in memory of the four members who perished in the Nahal-Dragot disaster. The synagogue was named “Gabi” – after the four who served and perished together: Gavriel Gerber, Baruch Gottlieb, Yossi Malkiel, Ezra Naim.