Schatz, Yoram

Yoram, son of Bella and Moshe, was born in Kibbutz Sarid on January 22, 1953. He studied at the “Amakim” educational institution in Mizra, the Polytechnic of Haifa, the radio and television program, and the Israel Institute of Education in writing. When he was fifteen years old, he invented a device to automatically switch lights on cars while driving at night. Sent a full specification and charts to the factories for assembling cars and was praised for this invention and even He had technical skills and clairvoyance, and he would shut himself up for hours in his father’s radio and television lab, building electronic devices and looking for ways to improve them, and he always bothered to find brilliant and unusual solutions in the professional literature. Collections of stamps, envelopes, and coins, all of which were neatly arranged and carefully packed, he liked to listen to music and solve crossword puzzles, always looking for a preoccupation, so long as he did not waste his time. He was withdrawn and withdrawn, but he always responded willingly to anyone who sought help in the areas he loved and engaged in every hour of leisure. Yoram was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early November 1971. After completing basic training he completed a course in tank training in the area of ​​the Suez Canal, where he served as a disciplined and responsible soldier. And during the operation of his unit, he was awarded the “Operational Service Award.” On October 6, 1973, Yoram was seriously injured in the stomach by a missile fired at his tank, Ismailia The doctors’ efforts to save him failed, and after eighteen days, on October 24, 1973, The next day he was brought to the eternal rest of the cemetery at Kibbutz Sarid, where he left behind his parents and two brothers, and was raised to the rank of sergeant in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Yoram was educated, alert and clever. He fought with devotion and courage, with self-sacrifice. “His kibbutz published a pamphlet called” Our Good Wife, Our Mind, “which contained things about his character, letters and photographs.