Nechmad, Meir

Son of Ezra and Mazal. Was born on April 5, 1945 in Tel Aviv to a privileged family of great people in Israel, great rabbis and community leaders. Grandson of Rabbi Meir Nechmad zt “l, a Zionist activist, a member of the National Institutions, founder and chairman of the Tzedaka and Hefa hospital, and of Rabbi Ovadia Hadaya, zt” l, who was the chief rabbi of Petah Tikva and the district, – He was a diligent, gentle-minded student, and was the head of the rabbinical courts of the Grand Court of Appeals and the head of the Beit El Yeshiva, where he studied at the Netzach-Israel elementary school in Petah Tikva and at the Torah and Malcha yeshiva in Kfar Avraham. He was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of May 1963, after completing his studies in the Yeshiva. After graduating, he married a wife and set up a home in Israel, where he worked as a technician and worked there until he fell. During the Six-Day War and during the Karameh operation, he was a devoted husband and father, and when he was away from home, he asked his family and his parents’ peace on a daily basis and in mid-March 1971 he was called up for an active reserve duty.Today, April 20, 1971, A few hours before the end of his service, he fell in the line of duty, leaving a wife and son, Alon, not yet two years old, when the fall of his father. Memorial plaques were erected in the Beit Avraham Synagogue in Petach Tikvah, at the school he studied in Netzach Yisrael and at Yad Labanim in Petach Tikvah, and at the Torah and Crafts Yeshiva where he studied In Petah Tikva.