Schwartz, Mark
Mark, son of Elizabeth William, was born on September 15, 1950 in New York, United States, and immigrated to Israel in 1970. He attended an elementary school in New York, graduated from New Jersey and began his studies He was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was an excellent student, diligent and eager to acquire knowledge, and during his youth he was a member of the “Young Judea” movement and in the course of that time he came to Israel for a year of studies with a group of youth after graduating from high school. Many: he was a sports fan and played basketball and baseball, he had a large collection of books and records and spent his leisure time reading and listening to music. He was an exemplary son of his parents and they said he was the best boy that parents could wish for, and that his love and warmth would always be remembered. He became a very friendly friend shortly after his arrival in Israel, and was deeply fond of Israel when he began his studies in Israel in 1968. He began studying Hebrew with great vigor, studied history of Judaism and Zionism and decided to settle in Israel. For a while he worked at Kibbutz Sde Boker and in the moshav. He also swept his parents with enthusiasm, who first came rushing to prevent him from immigrating to Israel, and finally refusing to follow him and join him. He began to study at the university, the law faculty, and then graduated with honors from the preparatory year of medical studies. He later married an Israeli young wife. Mark was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1970 and volunteered for the infantry corps, after which he was sent to a paramedics course and completed a course for paramedics. “During the Yom Kippur War, Mark took part in the operations of his unit in the skies of the battle, on October 17, 1973. On the Sinai front, the helicopter in which Mark served as an aviation medic was destroyed and he was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul Left behind a wife, parents and sister, and the Hebrew University published a pamphlet called “Nizkor”, which included a book about Mark and a character “He was a pioneer in the deepest sense of the word: dreaming and trays. Everywhere he had acquired friends with Lev and soul and continued to cultivate ties with them. “His friend wrote:” Mark had a wonderful trait: devotion. What he and we his friends thought, we wanted and dreamed – he fulfilled: got up and did. We always felt that he was a good Israeli and a better Jew than we were and a better man than us. To be the best was for him a supreme moral imperative, not a competition for its own sake, but a taste of life. “
