Shalom, Yehezkel (Hezi)

Yehezkel (Hezi), son of Juliet and Habib, was born in Iraq in 1948, and when he was three years old he immigrated to Israel with his parents and settled in Tirat Hacarmel. At the tender age he discovered his talent for doing various works, he was able to make repairs at home and to create various pieces of wood and metal, because he loved to continue his studies at the Miften vocational school in Tirat Hacarmel where he studied the frame profession. Handsome, black-eyed and hairless, an excellent gymnast and a football player, to improve his physical fitness, build weights and exercise Hezi was always a loyal friend of his friends and never refused a request for help in construction or repair, and after completing his studies at the vocational school, he was hired as a locksmith at the naval base. And was assigned to the Navy. After passing the basic training he was appointed truck driver. In this position he served and participated in the battles of the Six-Day War. During his service in the IDF, his family moved to Tel Aviv, and in January 1969 Hezi was released from regular service and began working as a metalworker, working as a fine worker, enjoying his work and seeing it as an art. As a metalworker until he decided to be a driver, and because of his excellent service as a driver in the Israel Navy, he was accepted to work at the Dan cooperative in Tel Aviv, where he married his beloved girlfriend and was the happiest person in his life when his daughter Varda was born. With his family, and in his work was one of the best in the group, he had a genuine inner joy, original and complete The handsome, bearded driver with smiling eyes, who never lost his temper and controlled every situation, was appointed to the Armored Corps during his reserve service and took a course in the half-track drivers. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Hezi was called the prayer. He kissed his little daughter and his wife, who was in her last months of pregnancy, and went “for a day or two” to join his unit in the south. Every day he managed to call home, ask his parents, say a good word to little Lorda, and encourage his wife. He took part in the difficult battles that preceded the crossing of the canal and crossing the canal itself. On the 22nd of Tishrei 5740 (October 22, 1973), the day the cease-fire came into effect, Hezi called home when he was in a good mood. After six hours, when he was repairing the destroyed half-track, he was hit by a missile and killed – just five minutes before the cease-fire came into effect – he was brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving a wife and two daughters, the youngest of whom was born after his death. Brother and brother, and was promoted to the rank of corporal in a letter to the bereaved family: “The soldier Yechezkel Shalom fell while serving in the area of ​​the breakthrough in the central sector of the Suez Canal. He served in an armored unit and served as a half-track driver in the Signal Company, and Yechezkel managed to keep the half-track in combat mode throughout the war and fell during technical treatment. In my name and in the name of all the soldiers of the unit, I express our deepest sorrow and we share in your mourning. “The family donated a Torah scroll to commemorate his soul, and his memoirs were published in the book” In Memory “.