Samler, Zvi-Netta

Son of Tzilla and David Hacohen was born on March 12, 1947, in Strytsa, Romania, where he immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1951. His parents, Holocaust survivors, settled in Moshav Nir-Israel in the south and developed a farm, Zvi, who studied at the elementary school and in the regional high school in Shapir, was a friendly young man of a comfortable nature and easily acquired friends and family, was devoted to his family and helped his parents in August 1965. He underwent training in basic training, and in May 1966 he completed a commanding officer course and was promoted to corporal. In April 1967, he was promoted to sergeant. Due to his father’s illness, he was temporarily discharged from compulsory service and returned to his parents’ home in Nir-Israel. The family sold the farm and moved to Jerusalem. Zvi started working in the supermarket in Kiryat Hayovel, where he met the girl he married. In April 1970 he returned to the IDF in order to complete his compulsory service, and underwent a series of courses and rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant. In October of that year he retired from the IDF and returned to his civilian job at the supermarket, where he continued his army service in military training, took a course in armored personnel carriers and later served as a noncommissioned mortar officer in the Yom Kippur War. (18.1.1984), he went to reserve duty at the base of his unit in the Eilat area and drove in a private car along with three other soldiers, while the two vehicles he was traveling with were killed on the Dimona-Sodom road. The fourth soldier was hospitalized and recovered, and Zvi was laid to rest on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where he left a wife, son, daughter, Father and sister, was 37 years old when he died, and after his death, the commander of his unit wrote to his wife: “Love of people and help for others were an established foundation for his lifestyle. In his pleasant manner he served as a symbol for all those around him. He left us all stunned and hurt “