Sharabi, Ephraim

Son of Issachar and Hannah. He was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood, where he studied in an elementary school and spent his childhood in the slum, and especially after his mother’s death, he suffered so much that he was forced to leave his home. He was treated with silence and suspicion, but in the youth company in Ashdot Ya’akov, he seemed to heal his injured soul, and he discovered with a slight smile that he raised his lips and in a cheerful song that he played from time to time, In August 1954 he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and fell in battle at the Mitla Pass in the Sinai Campaign on the 27th of March, 5727 (October 31, 1956). Was buried in the Military Cemetery in Shachal and on the 12th of Mershvan, 6.11.1957) was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. His memory was mentioned in the pamphlet Tevet 5717 of “Pages” (the reports of the Department of Immigrant Absorption of Children and Youth published by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem). In Uri Milstein’s book “Wars of the Paratroopers”, his memory was also raised.