Son of Rachel and Abraham. He was born on December 2, 1966 in Kiryat Shmona in the Upper Galilee. A twin brother to Asher – the firstborn born before him and to whom he was especially attached, and brother to Shalom, Mordechai, Nurit, Vered and Shauli. Itzik’s childhood was spent in the shadow of the Katyusha rockets fired from the Lebanese border. He bought his education in his city, Kiryat Shmona, in the Shapira State Religious elementary school, and at the Amal high school, where he studied in the automotive mechanics and acquired a profession. From his youth, Itzik was pleasant, modest and quiet. As a son and a great brother, he was very close to his family, and was always there for them – supportive, helpful and caring – to his parents, brothers and sisters. On October 2, 1984, Itzik joined the IDF and began a long career with many challenges and accomplishments in the Ordnance Corps, starting with the 17th Battalion of the Golani Brigade, completing basic training at the Yigal Alon Education Center In 1989 he moved to the Nahal Brigade’s 906 Battalion, and after a year he was promoted to the “Flying Lion” Battalion and was assigned to the Commanders’ And infantry, which was in Yeruham at the time. He successfully completed a parachuting course and served instead for another four years as a vehicle examiner. In 1993, after many years of service in the south of the country, he left the Flying Lion Battalion and went north, and began serving in the “Hermon” Brigade, close to his home. He now wore the insignia of a sergeant. Itzik loved the period of his service on Mount Hermon. Throughout his years in the IDF, he has believed in his work and contribution to the joint military effort, and served as a personal example for those around him.Three years he served in the Hermon Brigade and served as a head examiner in various vehicles, including a mechanic and driver, A forklift maintenance engineer, a safety guard and a foreman.In 2003, Itzik was transferred to the 474th division of the Division 36 in the Golan Heights. Here he was awarded the rank of senior sergeant, and later on, in recognition of his work and his performance, was promoted and received the rank of antidote – a rank granted to a small number of resistors. , Colonel Nizar Fares: “Itzik was a model sergeant in the brigade. He has always shown exceptional devotion and concern to his work and his soldiers. “Itzik’s colleagues described him as a kind, shy, smiling and loved person, and was very much appreciated by his commanders and soldiers. During his service, Itzik Merav, a Kiryat Shmona resident, married. They established their home in the city, where their children were born, my father and Almog – the source of his pride and happiness. Itzik tried to make many trips home to spend as many hours with his wife and children as possible. He accompanied all their activities and experienced beautiful years of family entertainment on Saturdays and holidays, conducted joint trips with them all over the country and was an active participant in the construction project of their dream home. Senior sergeant Yitzhak Revach fell during his duty on October 22, 2006, at the age of thirty-nine, and thousands accompanied him on his final journey to the military cemetery in Kiryat Shmona, where he was buried, leaving a wife, son and daughter Four brothers and two sisters, and after his death was awarded the Second Lebanon War, where he wrote his condolences to the bereaved family: “Yitzhak was a generous, shy, smiling and loved person. In the center of his work, his fatherly and human character was always conspicuous and his modesty very much, “and words written by Meirav, his wife:A father, a son, a brother, a brother-in-law and a beloved bridegroom, and left in their hearts a huge void that is hard to fill. His image accompanies us all day. Itzik, many of your virtues, but the greatest of all was humility. You were not a man of words, but of deeds. We will try to commemorate you as much as we can and tell everyone what a wonderful and special person you were, a devoted husband to your wife, a loving father to your children and a pride to your family. “
