Oshdi, Shimon

Ben Tzvia and Zachariah Yahya was born on 5 December 1930 in Yemen and immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel in Adar 1934. From his childhood, he was well-versed and ambitious and excelled in his studies and completed the elementary school for “Mizrahi” In the city of Rehovot, where his parents settled, and his teachers found talent and a tendency to teach and helped him to continue his studies Shimon went on to study in the ninth grade but was forced to stop his studies because of the poor economic situation of his parents’ home. Together with his nucleus, to the Kinneret group, where he spent two years absorbing the spirit of pioneering that left him behind for the rest of his life. E. Simon returned to the streets, but before he could get work Independence War broke out and he joined immediately, despite material hardship it left the house. He served in the “cylinder” division “open” and a short time later appointed deputy. He was offered the opportunity to take a naval training course, but he refused to part with his friends whom he called and who were about to be sent to various battle fronts. , And finally in the Negev On September 9, 1948, when he left his base at Kibbutz Nir-Am on his way to the outpost in the Be’eri region, he was hit in the chest by the bullets of the Egyptians who pursued them with a machine gun. His friends picked him up, but he died a few hours later and was buried in Nir Am. On the 25th of Kislev 5712 (December 4, 1950), he was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery. He left behind letters and a journal that showed great expression.