Shapira, Yitzhak (Yitzhaki)

Ben Esther and Nathan. He was born on January 26, 1975 in Netanya. Yitzhaki began studying at the Tachkemoni elementary school in Netanya and continued in the junior high school of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva there. When he reached the tenth grade, Yitzhaki chose to study at the AMIT school at Bar-Ilan University in the biotechnological track, where he enjoyed his studies there, the academic level, the sophisticated laboratories and mainly because he also “bought friends” there, as he did everywhere. Because he was not a “diligent student” in the narrow sense of the word, his talents and intellectual curiosity in all areas made him unique, but even in his impressive appearance – handsome, tall, He was always the center of events – the first among the Rishonim – and was always willing to contribute, organize, R. When Yitzhaki attended high school, he devoted his time to training in the Bnei Akiva youth movement at the Ein HaTchelet branch, and his apprentices remember him as a guide in every aspect of his life. The counselors who worked with Yitzhaki said: “For the younger children of the Nevatim tribe, he was an older brother and a significant figure … As a big brother, he loved to persevere and invest … … he planned to attract the apprentices to continue performing.” During his military service, he continued to visit the branch and maintain contact with neighborhood residents and former students. At the branch they commemorated Yitzhaki in a “memorial wall.” Yitzhaki joined the IDF on January 26, 1994, his ninetieth birthday, and was sent to a pilot course, and after four months he moved to combat engineering and served as a soldier and a lieutenant colonel. In the last year of his life he served as an engineering officer in Marjayoun in Lebanon, with the rank of First Sergeant, and at the end of his military service he decided to study medicine. … I know now, more than ever, how easy it is to kill and be killed. I would also like to help revive. “On May 30, 1996, Yitzhaki fell in a battle in Lebanon, and on the same day, when Yitzhaki was on his way home from Lebanon, a roadside bomb exploded and wounded several soldiers who were in operational activity in Lebanon. , Rushed back to the site of the explosion to try to help the injured, and then another explosive device detonated next to them, and Yitzhak was critically wounded and rushed to the Rambam Hospital where he died of his wounds. He was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was accompanied by his father and two sisters, Rivki and Diti, and on his birthday, the first birthday without him, his family gathered, Friends and friends, to mark the beginning of the writing of a Torah scroll dedicated by his parents to his name and memory. His friends and family took out a memorial book in his memory, in which parents, rabbis, friends, teachers and commanders spoke. This is how the mathematics teacher at the AMIT school remembers him: “Yitzhaki was a particularly intelligent young man, full of wisdom and life. Think of others more than of themselves. Loved and accepted by his friends and teachers. Loved and accepted also by the Creator, who at a very young age took to dwell with those who fell for the sanctification of God throughout the generations. “