Son of Rachel and Menachem. Eliahu was born in Turkey on August 31, 1949, the eldest son of his parents, the eldest brother of Yaffa, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1951. Eli studied at the school He continued his studies at the “Ofek Hatorah” high school in the city and went on to the Ofek High School, where he proved to be a wise and serious student and was loved by his teachers and friends, And after learning to drive a motorcycle, he bought himself a scooter with him, and he arrived everywhere, and Eli joined the IDF on November 17, 1966. He was then seventeen and two months old. The draft order came to him earlier than usual because of an error in registering his date of birth. He decided to enlist, saying: I will start the service early, and I will finish early. Eli was assigned to the Armored Corps, underwent basic training and was attached to Brigade 7. On June 5, 1967, about six months after his enlistment, the Six-Day War broke out. Eli, who fought in the southern sector and reached the Suez Canal, told his family at the time that he was abroad and did not say anything about what happened to him, and after that the battalion, which was Eli, was transferred to Brigade 14. They remained in the area of the Suez Canal, At the end of the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition, which lasted until August 1970, included many Egyptian shelling of Israeli forces in the Suez Canal area. And was taken by helicopter to hospital after an emergency operation at the scene. Eli was wounded when he was nineteen. After six months in which he was unconscious, he woke up, but was left with a head injury and needed nursing help. Eli was not functioning again (he functioned mentally as a three-year-old) and since then has lived in the home of his parents, who devoted their lives to him and refused to transfer him to the institution. After his parents died, he lived next door to his sister Yaffa, who continued her parents’ way and took care of her brother with infinite devotion. Eli’s dependence on nursing care increased over the years, and in 1999 he moved to the nursing ward at Ahuzat Rishonim in Rishon Letzion. Eli died of an injury during his service on December 11, 2001. Fifty-two on his death. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon. Survived a nurse. On Eliyahu’s grave, his family wrote: “On October 26, 1968, you were mortally wounded in the Suez Canal, and only after thirty-three years did you get a rest.” “My brother, my only dear brother, was a boy and a young boy, but you never got to be a man, and you came back to be a child. To show everyone how Yaffa you were, but on a rushing day on the edge of the Suez Canal, everything changed, and in a terrible attack shrapnel penetrated your Yaffa head and penetrated all of our lives, and despite everything, even in your desperate situation you could give a smile, sometimes illuminate the darkness of your life. That you feel it … I hope you have finally come to the rest you needed, rest in peace, we will always love you and be with us forever “
