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Peer, Zev

Peer, Zev


Ze’ev, son of Rivka and Mordechai, was born on 15 March 1954. He began his studies at the Brenner elementary school in Givatayim and later attended the “Aliyot” school in Ramat Gan and in Beit- He studied at the Dvir High School in Ramat Gan, completed his studies at the Ankori High School in the biological sciences track, and passed the matriculation exams, and was devoted to his parents and spent most of his time at home with His family was a source of pleasure and happiness for parents who survived the death camps in Europe, and he had a developed sense of beauty and aesthetics, loved order and aspired to perfection in all his endeavors. He also liked to read and devoted many hours to reading books, sometimes until late at night, and was a lover of music and listened to works whose sounds filled his room and the whole house Ze’ev was drafted into the IDF in mid-February 1973 and assigned to the Armored Corps. After basic training, he was trained to serve as a tank crew member and was sent to serve as an artillery officer in an armored unit in the Sinai. During the Yom Kippur War, his unit participated in the battles of containment and infiltration against the Egyptians in the Sinai. Ze’ev’s battalion is on the front line and when the war broke out the unit went out to greet the Egyptian army, which crossed the canal. On October 7, 1973, his tank was hit by anti-tank fire. The tank commander was killed and the other three crew members, including a wounded Zev, jumped out of the tank. The other two crew members gathered and Zev disappeared. On January 3, 1974, Ze’ev was declared a fallen soldier whose burial place was unknown, and his memorial was placed in the cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem and in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv, leaving behind his parents and brother. “The late Zeev served in the Armored Corps, he was an excellent soldier and a loyal friend, who was loved by everyone who knew him.” The place is a memorial for those whose whose burial place is unknown.

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