Peso, Shmuel (Shmulik)

Ben Miriam (a member of the Kimchi family) and Yaakov. Shmuel was born in Petah Tikva on January 12, 1944. His parents immigrated to Israel in 1938 and were among the founders of Moshav Beit HaLevi in ​​Emek Hefer, where the family moved in 1946. Shmuel (Shmulik) was educated at the Kfar Haim Regional School. In 1962 he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, the Armored Corps and Transport. Shmulik participated in three wars: the Six Day War, in which he fought in the eastern sector against the Jordanians, the Yom Kippur War and the War of Attrition, during which he fought Sinai against the Egyptians, and was involved in crossing the canal with the battalions of Arik Sharon. In 1968, Shmulik was married to Mati, and remained a son of a continuation of his parents’ family. Mati and Shmulik had three children – Miri, Nir and Guy. Shmulik made his living mainly from agriculture, and worked as a truck driver. In 1981, he was appointed as the current security coordinator of his residence, and joined the ranks of the Border Police, where he loved the homeland and knew every corner of it. On September 8, 1993, Shmulik was killed in an accident, when he got out of his truck for a flat tire. Sergeant Sergeant Shmulik was forty-nine when he fell. He was buried in the Beit HaLevi cemetery. Survived by a woman, two sons and a daughter.