Noah, Shalom

He was born in 1946 in Baghdad, Iraq, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1951. In Israel he studied at the Eliyahu Golomb Elementary School in Kfar Shalem and later continued his studies at the Art High School For art and graphic design and painting, named after Hanna Yaffe in Tel Aviv Shalom was an outstanding student, both in elementary and high school, where he was awarded two large silver prizes at talent shows and funded his studies. Many: He designed and decorated exhibitions, worked in applied graphics, sculpted clay, and invented children’s games that combine painting and graphics. He spent most of his free time and nights devoted to oil painting, painting portraits, still life, landscapes, and especially animals, and his paintings had a lot of light, bright colors and joy. He was a meticulous, well-disciplined, well-behaved son who spent many nights and nights helping his parents and supporting them, and he was punctual, clean and very tidy. The simplest. He was naturally cheerful, with a sense of humor and easy to make friends. Many asked for his closeness and he always found time to be available to his friends, to entertain them at home and to make their time. Shalom was drafted into the IDF in August 1966 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he served in the Armored Corps course and was an outstanding armor liaison officer, who praised him for his diligence and punctuality in fulfilling his duties, and spent most of his regular military service in the Hermon and Quneitra outposts. He was awarded the “Six Day War” Medal for his part in the war in 1967. After his discharge from regular army service, he was called from time to time for reserve duty, to cheer the soldiers’ hearts in the daily routine of decorating the strongholds he served in. , Which aroused great admiration and drew many soldiers to observe it On the day of Yom Kippur, Shalom took part in the battles of containment and break-ins against the Egyptians on the Sinai front, and on the day of the holiday of Simchat Torah (18.10.1973), Shalom was killed and killed by the shelling of the place where members of the unit were entrenched. The doctor, who was slightly wounded and dressed the other wounded, felt that he had been hit in the chest and had lost a lot of blood, but the doctors had given him a blood transfusion, but to no avail. , Two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Although he was thin and short, but with great devotion and help to his friends, he was not a lot of words, but he was not a role assigned to him, Disciplined and devoted, and primarily – the first to carry out the tasks assigned to the unit, he was an example to us all – in his life and death. “