Paz (Fumra) and Zvi-Dov

The only son of Ze’ev and Tova. He was born on the 22nd of March 1947 in the city of Waldenburg, Poland. . Upon completion of his studies at the “Kanot” school, his recruitment date came and he decided to turn to the navy. His mother’s opinion was not comfortable of his own accord, because she did not want her only son to move away from the house, but he explained to her that although he could be in Tel Aviv, it was not for him to be a “jobnik”. He promised to come home a lot and call home – and his mind was accepted. In August 1966, he was drafted into the IDF and served in the navy, volunteering to serve in the submarines, and was ordained as a sniper in June 1967. One day he came home and said, “Mommy, I have to go abroad” – because he was going to England to join the submarine crew “Dakar.” His letters were a consolation for his mother, especially his last postcard: “We’ll be in Haifa soon. But he did not show up, because when the submarine returned home, when it was found on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection was cut off and it was no longer renewed, on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). Zvi’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Since Zvi was one of the missing members of the team, a memorial monument was placed inside him in a memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mt. Herzl was a good, efficient and responsible diver, and the commander of the navy wrote in a letter of condolences to his parents about Zvi, who was “a devoted mechanic of his profession and integrated into the life of the labor and the submarine.” At the “Kanot” agricultural school, A memorial to his memory was written by the sculptor Buki Schwartz in Eran Shorer’s book, “Six Days in Decker,” his picture was brought in. His friends published a pamphlet and called it “In his memory.” On 28.5.1999, At the end of years of exploration, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the Mediterranean Sea floor at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.