Shlomo, son of Pnina and Yitzhak z “l, a Holocaust survivor, was born on the 2 nd of December 1946 in Balfuria. He studied at the elementary school in Balfouriya and Afula, at the Kaduri agricultural school and at the ORT vocational school in Afula. Shlomo was a diligent student, loved by his teachers and accepted by his friends. His teacher told him that he “had a leadership ability and could carry all his friends with him.” He loved nature very much, liked animals, and especially loved his horse “Blackie”, who treated him with great affection, nurtured and trained. In his youth he liked to play pranks and tricks and liked to play with weapons and explosives, which he could obtain in various ways. He was gifted with technical talent, commercial acumen, diligence, resourcefulness and “good hands.” He had never disliked any work, and had done various jobs. As a boy he worked for his neighbors to save money. Shlomo was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-July 1965. After completing his basic training, he was trained in an underwater weapons technician’s course, and he was considered a good soldier, and he was one of the best technicians at the base. His superiors. “For his part in the war in 1967, he was awarded the” Six-Day War. “After he was discharged from regular service, he took care of his family’s farm in the moshav, and afterwards he was an impresario, a contractor for paving roads and installing antennas. He was a brave man, bold and very stubborn, and every decision he made tried to fulfill with great devotion, and he never withdrew because of difficulties. “From the dawn of his youth, he could stand his ground, fight with his elbows and stride forward, without restraint.” Despite the many hardships his family had, he was a cheerful man who treated life without excessive gravity and sought to exhaust all their good. He was a friendly man and easy to make friends with, he loved social life and knew how to entertain, he had the ability to speak and to be persuasive, and since he was wise he could examine every matter with a thoughtful and deep thought. “The kefirim were not conscripted, and this caused great distress. Therefore, he made great efforts to assist the soldiers fighting at the front. He organized donations, encouraged women to bake cakes, and every day he went out in a car laden with sweets and cakes among the soldiers in Sinai and the Golan Heights. About two months after the end of the fighting he was drafted into reserve duty. On 27.1.1974, near a barber shop on the banks of the bitter lake, he fell in the line of duty when an Egyptian ammunition dump exploded and was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife, son and daughter , A brother and a sister, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant in a letter of condolences to the bereaved family: “Shlomo accompanied us both in compulsory service and in reserve duty, a service that he performed with dedication and efficiency … We remember Shlomo, the warm, In his cheerful face, his dedication, which he sometimes knew no limit, to his friends in the unit, younger and older. ” His family published a book in his memory entitled “Thunder on a Clear Day,” with memoirs of the family and friends, poems, letters and photographs; The Jezreel Regional School in Afula planted fifty plants in the forest of the Jewish National Fund.
