Raphaelov, Nathan

Son of Moshe and Tzipora. He was born in 1931 in the city of Baku, Russia, where Nathan was born on the way to Israel, although he did not arrive until 1948. Peres was his first stop with his mother, who died in this city seven years later. He remained in Russia two years later, and Natan began his elementary studies at the Alliance school in Tehran and at the age of 12 began working to find his bread. Finally, in 1948, as mentioned, he immigrated to Israel and settled in the kibbutz. In January 1950 he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, and after his release he settled in the Negev, where his brother came to visit him and took him to Kibbutz Nirim, and on their way to the kibbutz, – Natan was saved in 1954 and began working as a tractor operator in a nursery in the Negev in the Negev, where he lived with his wife in the nursery itself in harsh conditions. And every once in a while he went to reserve duty, and at the outbreak of the Six-Day War he was called back to the flag and fought with his knife On the road leading from El-Arish to Qantara in Sinai, he fell as a result of enemy air raids, on the fourth day of the war-fighting, on the 8th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967) and left a wife, daughter and two sons. In the military cemetery in Bari and was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.