Rivak, Eliyahu

Son of Israel and Esther. He was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on June 9, 1938. When he was ten and a half years old, the little family immigrated to Israel, finishing elementary school in Jaffa and continuing high school at the Montefiore School. Two years later, he left and took a clerical course in which he later worked in Dan. In April 1956, he enlisted in the IDF and volunteered for the paratroopers, where he was only six months old when he broke out in the Sinai Campaign, and in 1958 worked in the Knesset Guard in the Knesset building in Jerusalem. He worked as a construction manager and finally came to a journalism course and finished it successfully, loved the chess game, liked trips and excelled in his sense of humor, and was very confident in all of the tension before the Six-Day War. This was also found in the Six-Day War, which he loved very much and refused to obey the decisions of the medical committee, which found that Sgt HEALTH was not as it should be, that one Mtznihotio injured. He felt that war would break out, and believed that the IDF win great power. On the second day of the fighting, he was 26 Iyar 5727 (6.6.1967), fell in battle in Jerusalem but did not win to see the final victory. He left a wife and a daughter. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the book “Marinas Gabro” of the Paratroopers Command were brought his history and the story of his last battle.