Son of Shmuel and Giza. He was born on 5/9/1943 in Moshav Sharona in the Lower Galilee, where he grew up and was educated in the regional school, where he was a graduate of the first graduating class and of the high school in Afula Despite the distance between Sharona and Afula, He had always found time to help his parents with their weight, sometimes even more than he could, but he always did so willingly and responsibly.` Shraga was drafted into the IDF In August 1961 he volunteered to serve in the air force. He began his service with an aviation course and after leaving the course he remained in the corps and filled every position required of him with dedication and precision. He saw the air force as a challenge and loved everything about it. He devoted many hours to assembling airplanes in which he decorated his room. After four years of service he was discharged with the rank of lieutenant. Upon his discharge, he enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the Faculty of Agriculture. After one year of study in Jerusalem he continued his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, where he completed his bachelor’s degree. He also prepared his thesis for a master’s degree in agricultural science, and on June 27, 1971, ten days before he fell, he was awarded the title. He specialized in growing flowers and also chose this topic for his thesis: “The Water Sector in the Katoff Flower”. In this work he explained how to give the flower a long and Yaffa life after being picked. Shraga gave all his energy and Lev to this work. Even at night, when necessary, the faculty would have to check the results of his experiments. He also shared his experiences with his wife and read the results before her and she writes. He referred to sleep as a waste of time and spent many nights reading and studying, as if he felt his days were short and he had to do much more. His love for flowers was inherent to him from childhood and was evident in his treatment of them. In the winter, on Saturdays, when he was free from school and farm help, he wandered through the mountains looking for rare wild flowers, to bring them home and complete them in the flower beds. When he was eleven years old, he even won a prize at the school for growing and caring for flowers, and never missed any flower-related event, including visits to flower shows. Photography was a second hobby and even if he devoted himself and his photographs expressed his special relationship to the flower. The flowers blossomed in his paintings and acquired a new dimension, which reflected in harmony his love for photography and flowers. His dream and ambition were to establish his own house in a rural setting to live in; To establish a magnificent greenhouse and to grow rare flowers there. Although he was cut off from Sharona because of his studies and settled in Rehovot, where he established his home, he was connected to the moshav and was interested in everything that took place there. He did not stop worrying about his parents. At every opportunity Sir went home to help improve the agriculture. Any renewal and purchase of tools or crops was made after consultation with him. He was full of life and had a gentle and witty humor and a good and dedicated friend. He was always willing to listen to the problems of every friend and was willing to come to the aid of a friend. In the last year of his life, he began to work at Tehil, and as usual, he worked in his work thoroughly, energetically and with great fervor, as in all the other places where he met with people, he acquired friends and loved ones. In the course of his work in the IDF, he worked in the survey of irrigation systems in the Jericho area, and with all the satisfaction he found in his work, he waited impatiently for the reserve service, out of love for the Air Force and his desire to return to being a military atmosphere on July 17, In reserve duty, Shraga, along with nine of his friends, fell in line with his duties, leaving a pregnant wife and a sonthree. The daughter was born a month after they fell. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in his native village. A memorial corner for Shraga and his friends was established in their unit; The unit also produced an album in their memory; In the Faculty of Agriculture, the Department of Flowers, a commemorative plant was established in his memory, and includes a collection of scientific books on flower growing, which were purchased with donations from his family, teachers and friends. A book was also devoted to his memory by Tahal – Consulting Engineers Ltd., in an irrigation unit, which Shraga took an active part in, but did not see at the end. The title of the book: “Irrigation Systems in Jericho Area”; At the Dikla beach in the Rafah entrance, which was named after Shraga and his friends “Hof Hane’ara”, not far from the spot where they fell, a huge granite rock was erected in memory of them, The nearby moshav is named Nativ Ha’asara. The story of their lives and deaths was commemorated in a book that was published in their memory by the families and was called “The Enrichment.”
