Niddam, Eli

Son of-Aharon and Garcia, was born on March 12, 1950 in Fez, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his family in early 1972. He attended the Talmud Torah elementary school in his hometown and continued in high school And in the Alliance school in 1967. After 1967 he left Morocco and completed his studies at the Ecole Normale High School and received his high school diploma, where he died at the age of 14. His mother died in 1972. In 1972 he immigrated to Israel and joined To his family who settled in Jerusalem – thus fulfilling the request of his sick father, who wanted to see his family reunite in Jerusalem and immigrated to Israel to study in an ulpan on Kibbutz Regavim. The drafted into the IDF in mid-October 1972 a few months after he immigrated to Israel. After basic training, he was sent to serve in the armored corps brigade in the Golan Heights as a maintenance man. Together with his comrades in the unit he took part in the battles of the Yom Kippur War. When the battles broke out, his brigade, the Barak Brigade, was on the line of fire in the Golan Heights and stopped the Syrian armored forces that broke into the Golan Heights. In the fierce battles, the brigade suffered heavy casualties. Eli and his friends, the maintenance personnel, helped restore the brigade and restore it to fitness. He was a dedicated and loyal soldier who had fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him. On 21 October 1974, he fell to the army cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, leaving behind a father, two brothers and three sisters, and in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the commander of the unit, Eli He was a good soldier. A soldier who can be trusted with responsibility, fairness, and loyalty to everything that has been imposed on him. He was a soldier who understood real problems that deviated from routine and showed willingness and resourcefulness to help solve them. “