Podolsky, Mark

Son of Ella and Abraham. He was born on August 21, 1981, in the city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine. A younger brother to Ina. Mark grew up in a Zionist family that immigrated to Israel in 1991 at the age of ten. The family settled in Tel Aviv, where Mark grew up and was educated. He studied at the Bialik Elementary School and in the junior high and at the Ironi and Rogozin high schools. In 1999, he completed his high school studies with a full academic matriculation certificate, and in the year he remained until his enlistment in the IDF, he worked as a waiter at the Tel Hotel in Tel Aviv. Your blue eyes smile with a captivating smile and your white-tailed column glints mischievously. An athlete who comes late to class, sweating and flushed after a game … wherever you have been in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere. “His friends say that he had a special charm, handsome, smiling and red-faced with blush shyness, a true friend without limits, a talented athlete in soccer and basketball, and the most talented dancer in the class. He felt that it was his duty and was proud of the possibility of realizing it, and he dreamed of serving in combat engineering and training for his enlistment in a gym, and when he spoke about the unit, his eyes sparkled Mark joined the IDF in March 2000 and was assigned to the Combat Engineering Corps. At the end of basic training he underwent an engineering track to the first line in Kiryat Arba in Hebron, from where he went on to the Erez Company in the Lahav Battalion. From May to November 2001, he served soup in the Har Dov area. After the line at Har Dov, he continued his last practice at Nabi Musa. And took part in an operation in Nablus. On the morning of February 19, 2002, the company where Mark served served at the Ein Ariq checkpoint, and three soldiers arrived at the checkpoint and killed six soldiers, including Marek. , Staff Sergeant Tamir Atzami, Staff Sergeant Benny Kikis and Staff Sergeant Erez Turgeman, who was put to death at the military cemetery in Holon and was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. The Rogozin Experimental Democratic High School, where Mark studied, published a booklet in his memory. Mark had an unusual relationship with Ina, his older sister. They attended the same school and she made sure they did not hit him, and returned them to the one who hit him. She taught him everything she knew, pushed him to study, to complete her matriculation before the army, to do things. After every army trip he would call home and tell how it was. The family was proud of him and was Simcha to be Simcha for his military role. In the farewell, his sister said, “I would like to know what you felt at the moment when I lost you and your best friend, Michael, to know what really happened in the second one that shot you, if it hurt, if you could respond … I love you and always love you, I’m sure I will not know more sorrow, because I do not have another brother like you to lose. “