Rahamim, Abraham (“Avremale”)

Son of Rafael and Sarah. He was born in 1926 in the Caucasus region of Russia, immigrated to Israel in 1934. Avraham studied at the Talpiot Elementary School in Jerusalem and later at the Youth Institute of the Jaffa Municipality in Tel Aviv. He belonged to the Hanoar Haoved movement and was a member of the Achdut Ha’avoda party. Before the War of Independence he was in one of the Palmach companies and during the war he participated in battles in Manara and Misgav-Am. Just as he loved people he loved the homeland with all his soul. Was always satisfied with what he had and never demanded too much. In the evenings he would like to sit in the circle of his family, tell about the past and dream about the future. Once he spoke with his daughter and said to her: “Look, my daughter, I have not received the gift as a gift, not for a silver platter … For thousands of years we have been persecuted in exile and there is great blood pouring in. “I cut off my shirt and wrapped it and transferred it to the hospital, where I gave it blood, see what great achievements we have achieved to this day, thanks to those we chose.” And he was right. At first he was a construction worker and later made a living from farming. From time to time he was called up for reserve duty, and this was also the case before the Six-Day War. Before he left, he said to his wife, “Be strong, I’ll bring you many pairs of Egyptian shoes like in Sinai.” “But instead of the Egyptian shoes we received the Sinai Peninsula, the Old City of Jerusalem and many other areas.” In this war he fell in the battle at Tzur Natan near Taibeh, and it was on the second day of the battles, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), during the shelling of the Qalqilya strongholds. He fell as a result of a shell as a squad commander who was an exemplary example to all the soldiers of his company in his loyalty, behavior and devotion. left a wife and three children and his daughter Avihail was born about a month after her father sank. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. His memory was raised in “Yesodot”, the journal of the construction workers union. In a booklet published by the Netanya Municipality in memory of the fallen, his name was mentioned. In the album “The Sharon Bloc in the Six Day War”, which was issued by the command of his brigade, his memory was commemorated by bringing his photograph.