Netzer, Menachem

Menachem, son of Leah and Shlomo, a survivor of the Holocaust, was born on December 13, 1950, in Bucharest, Romania, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1964. In his childhood he studied at a general elementary school in Bucharest, Who studied at the Brandeis High School in Jerusalem, was a diligent, diligent and intelligent student, who was gifted with intelligence and was particularly outstanding in the field of fine mechanics. A short time in school and in school, he made friends with both native Israelis and new immigrants from different countries He was a lover of literature and a lot of reading literature, and from his childhood he had the willpower and the willingness to make decisions on his own, and by virtue of his perseverance, diligence and determination, he passed the matriculation exams. Menachem was conscripted to the IDF in early July 1968 and assigned to the Armored Corps. After basic training and after completing his Patton tank course, he was assigned to the unit as a cannon in a tank. He participated with his unit in the battles of attrition on the Suez Canal front, where he excelled in carrying out the tasks assigned to him, his devotion and his responsibility. His commanders testified that he was an excellent fighter and a soldier admired by his comrades-in-arms. After graduating from regular army service, he began working as a technician at the laboratories of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, after working for a while in training youth during the summer vacation. He was about to start studying history and international relations at the university when the Yom Kippur War broke out. When the war broke out, his unit was rushed to the southern front, where he took part in the braking battles against the Egyptians. In one of the battles, his tank went up on a mine, but the crew – and comforting him – was not hurt. He replaced the damaged tank with another tank and continued to fight. In the area of ​​”Hamadia” Menahem participated in the transfer of the bridge across the Channel to the west. On October 21, 1973, his tank was hit by an anti-tank fire, and Menachem was apparently unable to escape the burning tank and was declared missing, and after half a year his body was found and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery He left behind his parents and brother, and his parents donated a Torah scroll to his memory and immortalized him in a scholarship from the Hebrew University