Schwartz, Avigdor

Avigdor (Avi), son of Jacob and Yehudit, was born on February 23, 1951, in Tiberias. His first year of life was spent in the town of Migdal with his parents, and from there the family moved to Tiberias, where his brother and sister were born. My father attended elementary school in Tiberias. From childhood, he excelled in the swimming sport and the Sea of ​​Galilee, which grew on its edge, served as a training ground. Over the years he has achieved great achievements in swimming, participated in the success of the Sea of ​​Galilee and in many swimmers, and his name is not absent from the swimmers teams of his city. My father was connected to his home and his parents. He studied for two years at the “Green Village” and then studied at the Wingate Academy and was trained as a youth sports instructor. After returning from school, Avi decided to join his father, and to work in photography and optics. He always liked the photography and knew how to take in the film the most Yaffa and interesting of all he saw. He completed high school in the evening and during the day he studied optics. My father was a sturdy, handsome-looking lad, friendly to his friends and admired by his apprentices. With the consent of his parents, he decided to advance his service in the IDF and joined the Nahal Hermon group, which was the first to join Kibbutz Merom Golan. Avigdor was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1968. After completing basic training and a paratroop training course in the parachuting Nahal Brigade, he completed a course in the Operations of the Combatant Unit, and was discharged from his regular service in Merom Golan in August 1971. He spent all his energy devoted to theoretical studies and to practical work, but he did not spare any effort to advance, but in his spare time he continued his favorite swimming sport, and began to take an interest in basketball, and at the end of 1972 he married his girlfriend Rachel, and the couple set up their home in Tiberias, and that same year Avi was accepted to a three-year course at the Leop School Tika was born in Tel Aviv, and was accepted as a member of the Israeli Opticians Association, where he successfully completed his first year studies and had two years of study, concentrating all his efforts and investing his savings in opening an electronics store. Yom Kippur was called to his unit, which was sent to the front in Sinai and participated in battles against the Egyptians He was annexed to the paratroopers’ paratroopers and after heavy fighting days, on the 28th of Heshvan 5737 (28.10.1973) . He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Tiberias. He left behind a wife and son, parents, two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. The family commemorated Avi on a memorial plaque that was placed in the Dalet State School in Tiberias, where he studied.