Paz (Ptzykowski), Dr. Jacques

Son of Moshe and Tova. During the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Jacques was hidden with his brother in a Christian orphanage, and at the end of the Second World War the family returned to their home and Jacques was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Jewish family from Poland. He joined the Zionist movement “Gordonia” in order to prepare for his immigration to Israel, and the war of independence began in those days, when Jacques decided to immigrate to Israel and began his career in Hanita with a group of members of the Gordonia youth movement, At the end of October 1950 and at the end of his service he joined an agricultural farm. After the nuclear was destroyed, he decided to study medicine at the University of Brussels. During his studies he married and had a son and a daughter. After completing his studies he returned to Israel as a doctor. In 1962, Jacques began to exchange letters with Dr. Sheba, who was then head of the hospital at Tel Hashomer, where he sought to continue his residency in pediatrics, and after three years of residency in pediatrics, Jacques decided to settle with the first settlers in Carmiel And his son came to Israel and asked him why he did not start a career in medicine in the big city. The son replied: “I have to go wherever I need and instead need me.” Dr. Paz preceded him in the villages of minorities and was often invited to weddings or family celebrations. The idealistic person in which he overcame his grave aspirations. His neighbors and other residents of the town say he was simply ashamed to receive payment from his private patients. One of them said: “Dr. Paz was first of all a man, a great man, and then a great doctor.” He did more than his job and more than his strength and he visited the sick children after checking them in the clinic. And during his days of tension and alert before the Six Day War, his commander, Lieutenant Colonel G., knew him from the summer of 1967, when he came to reserve duty, and then the smiling young man stood up and shook his hand simply and said, “I am your doctor.” In the days of alert she worked with the paramedics, she cleaned an abandoned building and earth mounds to protect the place, where he set up the assembly point. And after the war he was called to reserve duty several times and was always willing to volunteer, standing out with the medical backpack on his back and with a strong desire, endurance and willingness. During the period of reserve service, he continued to live with his family in Carmiel, where he was one of the main pillars, and he loved the place as he loved this country and he believed in its development. And its air. One of the soldiers was wounded and Jacques was at the command post near the front line. He felt the wounded man, accompanied by two paramedics. The injured man was dressed by the doctor and transferred to the casualty’s collection station. But when the doctor’s half-way through, a tank or an anti-tank cannon opened fire and one of the shells directly hit the half-track. On 26 June 1970, Dr. Paz, two of the medics and another soldier, were killed by the shell, leaving a wife, a son and a daughter, and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Nahariya. In which he wrote: “Although a young man was many of us would care for us all. He was a ‘father’ – – – people are tested at a difficult time and there are buyers at one hour. Dr. Paz was one of them, in what way do we comfort you, the wife and the children and the parents? I, the battalion commanders and his men,They mourn him with you. “In May 1971, the Jewish National Fund planted a grove of 1,000 trees in the forest of Modi’in, near son of-Shemen, named for Dr. Jacques Paz. The clinic and operating room at the Magen David Adom station in Carmiel are named after him.