Sharaf, Israel (Israelik)

Son of Malka and Meir, was born on November 13, 1927 in Haifa. After graduating cum laude from elementary school, he studied mechanical frames at the Technion vocational school in Haifa and was praised for his intelligence and agility at work, and his friends praised him for having a Lev of gold. At the school he joined the Haganah at the appropriate stage for his age and after the final exams he left at the age of 17 for a year of service as a guard in Alonim. The worn-out uniform at first on the skinny boy stretched well on his body that had developed over the course of the year. He was promoted to the rank of corporal and served for another year and a half as head of the Alonim station, where he trained the new guards, and secretly the local youth, in the use of weapons from the ” Defense. “After he was discharged from the Nutras, he began to work in his profession at the Nesher factory and devoted his spare time to the training of the local youth After the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, He was transferred to Ein Hamifratz as an instructor in a course for squad commanders and from there went on to regular service as a member of the infantry battalion of the Carmeli Brigade and participated in all the battles. Sometimes he was on a motorcycle for a short visit, and on one visit he told his father: “Be prepared to hear that you do not have a son.” And according to his father’s anxiety, he answered: “Who is going to go, do you have to go so that you and your mother and all of you will live?” And his friends – his apprentices – would say, “Guys, do not be afraid, we will win, because the soldier who knows what he is fighting will end up winning.” On his last visit to the house, he said that in his opinion, if there is a Hebrew state, he replied: “The state is already a real fact that we are creating it.” Nevertheless, he was eager to reach the day of the official declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, but did not receive the opportunity to participate in the son of Ami campaign to liberate the Western Galilee during an assault on the village of Samariya on May 14, Forever in the military cemetery in Nahariya.