,אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים, שׁוכֵן בַּמְּרומִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכונָה
,עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה בְּמַעֲלות קְדושִׁים, טְהורִים וְגִבּורִים
כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ מַזְהִירִים, לְנִשְׁמות חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Rosenfeld, Yitzhak-Menachem (Yitzhaki)
The eldest son of Sarah Nehama and Eliezer. He was born on March 21, 1980 in Maalot. Yitzhaki was the first son, the first and the first grandson, and as such he received great love from all those around him. He was named after his uncle Yitzhak Rosenfeld, his father’s brother, who was killed while serving in the army and was buried on the Mount of Olives. Yitzhaki’s circumcision ceremony took place on the second memorial day for his uncle, and the proximity of the events was a central issue for the family and accompanied Yitzhaki throughout his life. Yitzhaki’s parents, who had a Hasidic orchestra and a social worker, were among the first settlers in Kochav Hashahar – a community settlement in Samaria, west of the Jordan Valley – and when Yitzhaki was six months old, they moved to the site. Yitzhaki was the first child in the community and his soul was connected to the place from the very first moment. He loved the land, the paths and the people, and as someone who grew up and was nurtured in a loving and loving greenhouse, he could bring back great love to all the people he met. Later, he will testify that “in the community and among the people and friends I am accepted and loved and found in a good place in society and among those around me.” He spent most of his life in Kochav Hashahar, where his three sisters and three brothers were born, except for two years in which the family lived in an aliyah institution in Petah Tikva, where his parents and father taught at the Academy of Music. Yitzhaki began his educational career at the center and kindergartens in Kochav HaShachar, and later went on a typical route for a religious youth from the settlement. He attended the “Nahalat Binyamin Banim” elementary school in Ofra and continued on to the regional junior high school. Then, under the influence of his friends and youth counselors, he moved to Jerusalem to study at “Yeshivat Yerushalayim Yerushalayim”, which is adjacent to Merkaz Harav. When he reached the twelfth grade, and after much deliberation and consultation, he decided to continue his studies at the Ahavat Hayim yeshiva in Kochav Hashahar, where he completed his studies and matriculation exams, and was a member of the national religious youth movement “Ari’el” He also taught a group of boys in grades 3 to 4. He loved sports, and especially the basketball field, where he took part both as a participant and as an observer, and over the years he collected many tapes from NBA teams and watched television on live broadcasts. For all, Yitzhaki’s main hobby was related to mechanics and motor vehicles, and especially to jeeps. From an early age, he studied, read and devoted a lot of time to dealing with different types of vehicles, new and old, he was a member of auto magazines and he achieved a degree of expertise, and Yitzhaki was gifted with gold and a wonderful painting ability and had a large collection of car drawings that he planned to build in the future. He spent a lot of time designing a Buggy, which he and his friend had built for a long time, and Yitzhaki had an American jeep that he used to drive and travel and knew how to fix it when it was needed. “Beautiful people who own,” plow “tracks, streams and trails, and enjoy total pleasure. Over time, Yitzhaki expanded his fields of expertise and also issued a license for a tractor and light truck. In addition to all his skills, Yitzhaki had a wonderful voice. He managed to record a song with his father, which was performed on the Hasidic chants. After completing his eighth year, Yitzhaki learned for two months at a high yeshiva in Shilo, thinking that he would postpone the recruitment and study computers in the framework of the reserve. To do so, he passed a psychometric test that made him a challenge and an experience, and stood up with respect. Later, after a conversation with the director of Machon Lev, the school, he reconsidered and decided to withdraw from the idea. In the meantime, Yitzhaki was fit to begin the pilot stages of the pilot’s course, and therefore left the meeting. In the remaining three monthsUntil the beginning of the flight, he worked as a light truck driver and in other positions in his uncle’s factory. On the way, he underwent a series of medical tests that included an ECU test in Jerusalem “for fear of poor conduction of some substance,” as Yitzhaki defined it. After passing the test successfully and all the obstacles were removed, the excitement began towards the coming consolidation. The formation of the pilot was a unique and new experience that contained quite a few difficulties, but Yitzhaki overcame all of them, and when he received the positive answer announcing his acceptance to the pilots’ course, he was the happiest person. The pilot, the planes, the pilots and the aura surrounding them constituted the peak of his aspirations and he considered him a magnificent, exalted, and admired thing. At a young age, he nestled in the film “Top Gun” (“Love in the Sky”). Now, as the stages progressed and the dream came closer and more real than ever, the excitement and desire to succeed grew exponentially. Yitzhaki received endless support from his parents, who experienced with patience and faith all the stages of the process – from the recruitment office, through medical examinations, to the great excitement of his acceptance of the course. When he was accepted into the course, Yitzhaki was asked to write his biography, describe his expectations and characterize his personality. He describes his special relationship with his parents: “I love and are very close to my family and my parents, I share them with almost everyone, I am not afraid to share feelings, feelings and desires with them, even with my friends and those around me who also recognize that my connection with my parents is excellent. I love and love at home, and this is the place I love most. ” Izhaki wrote about himself: “I come from a home and a religious settlement, but my parents also educated me as a religious person to be open and liberal in many things and not to be excessive. In order to succeed in the course and cope with the difficulty and stress, I will always tell myself to do maximum and feel comfortable with myself always, and that I do everything I can, and whatever happens, I will know that I did the best I could … I try not to. To think of a possibility that I might fall, but in the few moments that it is, then it seems very dependent when I fall, and see I believe that this is theoretical, and I will be able to finish the course and become a pilot and meet the challenge and with the tremendous desire to succeed. ” When Yitzhaki was asked to write about the most formative and influential events in his life, he wrote candidly: “On the very day I joined the memorial ceremony for the death of a friend and neighbor of mine, who was three years younger than me, he was killed in a car accident when he crossed a road and a young driver hit him It was one of the most significant events, and my feelings were more intense than I ever remembered, so suddenly it was so close to me that my close acquaintance with him and his daily life caused me shock and an inability to digest what had happened. And a close and close friend of mine, who on the day of enlistment was among those who accompanied me, and I asked M. Oh very intended to remind wanted to be a memorial service for his. ” In the section detailing flight-related experiences, Yitzhaki spoke of two events of weight that left his mark on them. One was a flight to the United States in a giant jumbo, at the age of 14. This trip is engraved in Yitzhaki’s memory as a great and meaningful experience. He had another experience just before the start of the course, when his cousin, who was practicing for a commercial pilot’s license, invited him to sit on the plane behind him and experience the feeling. Yitzhaki enlisted in the IDFThe March 1999 platform and began the Air Force pilot course. He invested all his energies in the course and was interested in becoming an Israeli fighter pilot and an air crew. Indeed, Yitzhaki graduated with honors from the aviation course, after being transferred from his heart to a transport trend. He soon became attached to the squadron and to his friends, and if he had not been so attached to the fighter pilots, his guys could have admitted that their squadron was much more interesting. They engaged in various activities related to intelligence affairs and flew around the clock 24 hours a day. Yitzhaki loved the guys in the squadron very much. He was a wonderful friend, loving and respectful of real people, and throughout the course he earned high marks in the social assessment tests. As usual, he often shared his anecdotes with his parents. With his sensitivity and his subtle ability to discern, he could put his finger on small human details and pass the stories and figures in a particularly succinct and successful way. Yitzhaki, who loved jeep tours, used to say that there is no such thing as an interesting flight for one successful Jeep trip, when the jeep experience is given a clear priority. Unfortunately, he paid with his life for this great love. On 29 March 2002, Yitzhaki fell in the line of duty in a road accident that occurred in Nahal Tze’elim. After intensive work on Erev Pesach, and after participating in Seder, which was a special and uplifting evening with a family member until three in the morning, he decided to go on a jeep tour in the south on Friday. The trip was successful and enjoyable. He was accompanied by another dozen friends, and his sister Hadas participated in the trip. When they began to make their way back, they crossed the Tze’elim River. The jeep in which Yitzhaki and his friend Yisrael was traveling was swept away; They managed to get out of the jeep, but the water was not allowed to stand out of the stream. They drifted along for a long time, at a certain stage when the water “blew” Israel out – while Yitzhaki continued to drift to a waterfall about 70 meters high. On Saturday morning, after many intensive searches by members of the squadron, his comrades from the squadron, led by Commander Gadi Cooperman, many volunteers and members of the Arad rescue unit, found Yitzhaki’s body. He was twenty-two years old when he fell. He was laid to rest on the first day of Passover in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by parents, three sisters – Hadas, Irit and Tal and three brothers – Malachi, Meir and Maoz. After his death, the family had two more sons – her father and Elisha. After his fall Yitzhaki was promoted to lieutenant. Yitzhaki’s family discovered, through a special computer program, that Yitzhaki and his uncle named after him lived for a number of days: 8055 days. This discovery flooded them with amazement and deepened the feeling that this was not accidental. Yitzhaki’s mother documented the difficult confrontation with the loss in the book “Touching the Sky: Loving Letters.” The book, an authentic and rare diary, sheds light on Yitzhaki’s unique character and the close relationship between the mother and her son. The book also includes many pictures of Yitzhaki from various stations of his life. “My connection with Yitzhaki, my eldest son, was very special, I gave birth to him at the age of nineteen and a half, and since then our souls have been bound together by countless threads of love, appreciation, deep closeness, mutual happiness We were talking a lot, from deep white philosophical ideas and just passing on experiences and impressions … It was not a day when we did not talk a few times … Yitzhaki was a child full of charm and grace, a child who loved his family more than anything else, He was honored by us as parents in an exceptional way, and we knew how to appreciate this in his lifetime … He is sorely missing us. Box constitutedOnly a temporary and insufficient substitute for this miraculous bond. … There are no words that really describe the depth and texture of such complex emotions. … We live not only out of lack of choice, but out of conscious choice, love of children, love of life and our deep need to live ‘with joy and goodness.’ “Yitzhaki – you were the most wonderful and special child that every mother in the world would ask for … I definitely build on the hope that I will feel something even more powerful And especially with time so that I can understand and feel that your death was not in vain and that something powerful and powerful will grow out of it … Below you have undoubtedly received endless amounts of love and support and there is no reason for you to settle for less. “On Yitzhaki’s twenty-third birthday, about a year after his fall, A ceremony for the reading of the school in Kochav HaShachar in memory of “Ahavat Yitzchak.” The rescue unit in Arad commemorated Yitzhaki in reading Gimmel, The jeep’s rescue unit is named after him.