Ben Rina and Shimon. He was born on August 30, 1950 in Tel Aviv. Yitzhak, whom everyone called Itzik, was from a typical family of working Eretz Yisrael, who first lived in Hatikva neighborhood. He received his elementary education at the Brenner School in Givatayim. From there, he moved to the Ort vocational school in Ramat Gan, and when he was finished he asked for a postponement of one year’s enlistment, in order to complete the matriculation exams at the Mishlav school. Years later, when he was already a senior officer in the IDF, he completed a BA in general history at Tel Aviv University, and he was a trainee and mentor in the Hanoar Haoved movement, and in the framework of the movement he traveled extensively in Israel, a hobby they developed and remained loyal to all his life. He was an architect of the love of the land, a spirit of volunteerism and an identification with the values of defense and settlement, and he was a master of craftsmanship and excelled in carpentry, construction, and any craft that required agility, resourcefulness and industriousness. And volunteered for the paratroopers. He served in the Horev reconnaissance unit, and towards the end of his regular service he went to the officers’ course and continued his service in the career army. Itzik served in the IDF a long list of combat and command positions, most of them in the infantry corps, the one with which he identified himself most, and after the Yom Kippur War he converted to armor, but returned to serve in the infantry at his request. He was commander of a company of recruits, an operations officer, a deputy brigade commander in Gaza and the Golan Heights, an operations officer of the Southern Command, and in recent years a deputy commander of the Golan Heights. The members of the South Lebanon Army were his proteges and he gave them extensive experience in all areas, not just military ones. His Lebanese subordinates gave him decorations, certificates of appreciation and swords as souvenirs. In 1972 he married Michal and the couple had three children. In 1976, Itzik took time off from the IDF, but two years later returned to the regular army, completed his service in the General Staff and the Southern Command, and in 1986 moved to Kibbutz Merom Golan, In his role as a senior liaison officer in the western sector in Lebanon, Itzik did not make do with commanding missions, and in every security incident in the sector he would quickly wear a battle vest and helmet, take up arms and run forward with his soldiers. On 21 January 1990, during an encounter with terrorists who had barricaded themselves in a building on the outskirts of the village of Yaron in the south Colonel Itzik Rachimov was killed in an Israeli military cemetery in Holon, where he was killed at the age of thirty-nine, leaving a wife, two daughters, Meirav and Adi, a son of Eyal and parents in a letter of condolence to the family. At the time, Yitzhak Rabin: “Colonel Yitzhak Rachimov gave his life for his homeland … As a mentor to the SLA, he ran forward and arrived with a security team close to the house where the terrorists barricaded himself and was hit by a bullet fired by a terrorist … First to extend help and volunteerism. It left a deep impression on everyone around him. A highly experienced professional who projects confidence in his environment. “Itzik demonstrated what are the basic values and values of real combat of the person on whom we were raised and raised, connected and rooted in the Land of Israel and the State of Israel … His actions constitute a symbol, And an example of a citizen, a soldier and a commander. “The family published a booklet in his memory containing eulogies of commanders, friends along his pathPress clippings published after his death.
