Shabbat, Eli (Eliezer)

Son of Tzippora and Hanan was born in Petah Tikva on May 18, 1948, where he grew up and was educated in the elementary school in Kiryat Matalon, where he continued to study at the Ahad Ha’am High School. He grew up in a high school with a realistic track, and he grew up in a liberal home where he could express his many talents and years of playing the violin and achieving good achievements. A developed sense of responsibility, these qualities made him a natural leader among his friends, a fellow who is faithful to his principles and has a developed sense of justice. His military service, these qualities were exhausted. In August 1967 he joined me in the IDF, passed basic training and was sent to a series of professional courses. In his service, he stood out as a soldier with qualifications, as an organizer and as a guide. He completed his supply officer course and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel in September 1968. Eli was appointed as a maintenance officer in the infantry, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1969. His commanders’ opinion was that he was ” Goat to promote subjects … Very effective in his work, with great professional knowledge. In 1971, he began his military service at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he was promoted to the rank of captain and served as a supply officer in an infantry unit. His commanders marked him as “a stable, strong, logical, exemplary officer, performing his duties in the best possible way.” At the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, his studies at the Technion were cut off and Eli went out with his unit to the front. For his part in the Yom Kippur War, his commanders praised him: “Eli is a very responsible and consistent officer, who has the ability to organize and initiate. At the end of the war he returned to his studies at the Technion, and at the same time continued his military service. In December 1976 he completed his studies and received an engineering degree. On September 19, 1980, he went to the military court in Jaffa to serve as a judge in the military court in Jaffa, and he traveled from Petah Tikva to Rosh Pina, where a civilian vehicle appeared in front of him and collided with him. Eli was killed in an accident when he was 32. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Petach Tikva and left behind a wife, daughter, son and parents. The commander of his unit wrote in a letter of condolence to his family: “As a member of the unit’s headquarters, he stood out to me as an officer, as a professional and a human being. He did not have anyone to consult with, but he never complained, and despite all the difficulty he drew satisfaction from the challenge of lifting the mission. “