Sandler, Eliyahu (“Eli”)

Son of Jacob and Sima. He was born on 16.8.1940 in Metula. After he was three years old, his family moved to Moshav Shear-Yeshuv where he began to love the land, animals, and work in general. From his childhood, he would lend a hand to his father in various jobs in the farm, and even to keep on going, since since his parents’ farm near the border he used to go out with his father to work to sit on the top of one of the trees and look around him with his eyes open so that his father would be surprised by the enemy across the border. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, all the families were evacuated from Moshav-Yeshuv, after which his parents moved to the abandoned Jewish settlement, but soon settled in the nearby Moshav Bnei Atarot. At the time he was admitted to the “YH Brenner High School” in Ein Ganim, where he was the only Eliahu who was allowed to go out to guard with the adults, His love of the agriculture and his devotion to his parents led him to decide, at the end of the tenth grade, to leave the study bench and to engage in the work of a farmer in order to continue the agriculture one day in order to facilitate his work, His parents decided to join the Nahal Brigade after his enlistment, which took place in July 1958. In the Sha’al core, to which he belonged, Well, because he often managed to create an atmosphere of laughter and cheerfulness in his singing and dancing. But he was not only fond of his friends, but also of his willingness to help every failed brother and his tendency to make peace between friends in a quarrel. In basic training, too, he was honest with his good spirit and was even obedient and disciplined. The group went to Kfar Giladi for an agricultural training year, where he devoted himself to the work he had clung to since childhood. On the 20th of Adar 5705 (March 20, 1960) he fell while fulfilling his duties and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery of Bnei Atarot. His comrades-in-law in Tel Katzir and Moshav Bnei Atarot published a booklet in his memory called “Eli”. His memory was mentioned in Uri Milstein’s book, “The Paratroop Wars.”