Rubinov, Shlomit

Shlomit, daughter of Ziva and Natan, was born in Tel Aviv on April 12, 1954. She studied at the Yehuda Maccabee Elementary School and completed her studies at the Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. She was always very helpful, and she did so with sincere frankness: From a tender age, even when she was in kindergarten she knew how to express herself and her stories, which she first heard from her mother, She was very clever in her early years and was able to respond with humor to things that the older ones tried to ignore, while in elementary school she excelled in her theoretical studies and when she was in third grade she was called the “Bible champion”. As a student in the higher grades, she was always called to fill the place of a missing teacher and was able to fascinate the children with her wonderful stories. From a young age, she wrote poetry and her poems attested to a sensitive soul and to the sharpness of her thought and to seeing things in her own original way. The children in the class knew that Shlomit was unique and different from them and accepted her as she was out of great love and admiration. “I did not have such a beloved and expensive pupil, she shared my problems with me, consulted with me, just like my daughter.” Shlomit, who remained in touch with me even after we separated and then met again – in the teaching profession. ” After graduating from elementary school, Shlomit knew how to help others through her special senses, and she volunteered to help Hadassah Hospital. During her volunteering period, she decided to turn to the teaching profession and she went to study at the Kibbutzim Seminar, where she graduated from high school. She was independent of thought and behavior, older than her years, but deeply attached to her family, especially to her grandmother, with whom she had a deep emotional connection. During the Six-Day War, her cousin Aryeh fell, and Shlomit wrote in his memory some of her most sensitive poems. Shlomit was recruited to the IDF at the end of July 1972. She completed her studies at the National Teachers’ Training Course in July 1973. She was awarded the rank of sergeant, and was appointed to a small group of teachers who volunteered to engage in education in Israel and was educated and nurtured, The book “Narcissus” in Yerucham gave her all the warmth and love she gave to children who were born in the brain and whose parents were estranged from them, much more than her role as teacher and soldier. With the children, telling them stories and singing songs to them Or hug, she could not accept the thought that she could not change their miserable fate and looked for ways to help them After she worked in Yeruham she was assigned to a school in Ashkelon, but she was in touch with her children in Yeruham. In the Yom Kippur War, she volunteered again to help in a hospital, and this time she went to Be’er Sheva, where she helped and worked for wounded soldiers, and here too she did her work with warmth and love from the bottom of her Lev. On the seventh day of Tevet 5716 (6.1.1974), Shlomit fell in the line of duty and was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving her parents and sister, and her family published a book in her memory containing poems she had written.