Sharabi, Ehud (Udi)

Ehud (Udi), son of Miriam and Meshulam, was born on 21.6.1947 in Petach Tikvah and attended the “She’erit Yisrael” religious primary school and the “Netzach Yisrael” Tikva, studied for a year at a boarding school in Kfar Pines, took an electrician course, and later studied at the Amal vocational school in Petach Tikvah and eventually studied at the IAF Technical School in Haifa for a two-year electronics course. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved vehalomed youth movement and later taught it, and he had many hobbies, and his profession, electronics, was a hobby for him. He was a sports fan, especially basketball and soccer, and he liked to fish and go for walks with his many friends, and everything he took was perfect, and he excelled in fine and clean, and he had the talent to get something out of his hands He was always a good friend who was always ready to help others, and everyone he knew praised and loved him Ehud was drafted into the IDF in June 1966 and assigned to the Signal Corps. Even before he was recruited as a course technician at the IAF Technical School. He was therefore assigned as a communications technician in a command-line battalion. During the Six-Day War he participated in battles in the Sinai, then served in a command unit in the Artillery Corps and underwent a training course in his profession. After completing his regular service, he was assigned to reserve duty in a moving artillery battalion. His discharge certificate indicated that he had excellent professional knowledge. Later he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in reserve duty, was stationed as a communications technician at the command of an artillery unit, and in 1973 he returned to serve in his profession, in a moving artillery battalion. He served loyally and liked his fellow soldiers and commanders. After completing his regular service, Ehud worked as an electronics technician in various companies in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, and recently worked for Etzion in Ramat Gan and for a private contractor. Not long before he fell, he married a wife, and before his marriage he rented an apartment, and with his own hands he renovated, painted, decorated and decorated. He was a son, a brother and a devoted and beloved husband. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Ehud positioned himself in his unit, was sent to Sinai and participated in the battles as a technician in the communications department. On October 21, 1973, Ehud was hit by shrapnel in the head with heavy shelling near the Gidi junction, and was evacuated and died of his wounds on the way to the hospital. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife, parents and six brothers. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander said, “Ehud was one of the people who brings with them a smile and a good atmosphere everywhere. His family donated a Torah scroll and Torah library to the Beit Yosef Synagogue in Sha’ariya, near Petah Tikva.