Rosenzweig, Zvi (“Zvika”)
Son of Mordechai and Nechama. He was born on March 5, 1948, in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, where he graduated from elementary and high school in the kibbutz, with everything – smile, beauty and love, youth and laughter, wit and wit and brilliance and flexibility. , As a guide he liked to go out with his students on trips, trips and camps, and planted in his students’ hearts the love of nature and the mother of the land, and the bond between him and his students was not cut off even after he stopped guiding him. They saw him as a person who could be faced with problems and received an appropriate answer In addition to his studies and work in the Hashomer Hatzair movement, he contributed to his work in the various branches of agriculture in the kibbutz as required, especially during the Six-Day War, when most of the kibbutz workers were recruited. In spite of this extensive activity, he worked extensively in real sciences – physics and mathematics – studied nuclear theory and completed his 12th grade thesis on quantum theory. He was totally attached to the kibbutz and to his peers, and together with them he planned to build his future on the kibbutz. Zvika was drafted into the IDF at the end of October 1967. At first he volunteered for an aviation course, but later volunteered to serve in the paratroopers and was assigned to the reconnaissance unit, where he discovered one of his greatest talents – One of his friends, his commanders, testified: “With us, he was simply the best – even in the obstacle course, which is considered the physical test. The most difficult in the IDF today, was to determine the best time in the company: “officers’ course, with his characteristic humility, Zvika wrote to his girlfriend:” Just now Well the tester. Most of the youth prepare another order (for the FSU) and others can write letters … “After the officers’ course, Zvika returned to his commando unit – this time as a commander. And as a commander he headed his troops for his first tour of the difficult, dangerous, and longest route of the Suez Canal – the route from Kantara to the positions north of the Suez Canal. Zvika briefed his soldiers, prepared them for the difficult and dangerous task, and headed out in the first half-track, followed by the rest of the force-half-tracks and tanks. Zvika succeeded in instilling in his soldiers the knowledge and the ability to act in any situation and when they encountered an ambush in Egypt, it was sufficient for Zvika to “break out and storm” in order to fulfill their duty. Two words – in which all his principles and personal values he acquired from his parents and kibbutzim were exhausted. In this encounter, which took place on February 5, 1970, Zvika fell with three of his subordinates. After they fell they were promoted to lieutenant. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. In his letter of condolence to the family, his commander wrote: “Zvika loved the unit and the unit loved Zvika, believe me, he was Simcha among us.” He was not Simcha with him when he learned that when he finished his officers’ course he returned to us. And I have not twice heard him say to his friends: ‘When you are in such a group, you can not but give all of yourselves to justify your very existence here.’ “In my opinion, he gave all of us to him – Zvika loved life but knew the price we pay every day and hour An hour for our lives – Zvika will continue to hover among us and he will be among us and light our way. ” His educator eulogized him and said: “All of usWe feel this empty space in our lives, and we will feel it as long as we do not grow up in a tall, thin boy with penetrating and questioning eyes who want to build a world that encompasses everything and contains everything. “After his fall, Kibbutz Gan Shmuel published a pamphlet in his memory, “He said.