Shavit, Shamai

Son of Michael and Leah. He was born on April 28, 1948 in Tel Aviv. He completed his studies at the “Shapira” elementary school in his hometown and continued to study high school until the eleventh grade in the ninth urban high school in the sociological track, where he belonged to the Scouts movement in his youth, He was a soldier who expressed his desire to remain in the company even after the advanced training, did everything he had to do and went out with his company for every action and pursuit, and stood out as a courageous and fearless soldier. “And his strong will and willingness to act, and the members of the nucleus were able to admire his determined power of will to successfully pass the parachute Nahal period And the maturity and responsibility he had on his shoulders at the time. But once, in a clash with saboteurs, on the 19th of Elul 5728 (September 19, 1968), he was wounded by mortal wounds. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. The company commander wrote in a letter of condolences to the bereaved parents that “he was a disciplined soldier and a good warrior, and went up on all of his classmates in all his duties.” Shammai fell in combat with murderers who infiltrated the country to harm peaceful civilians and in his attempt to arrest them paid the heaviest price, . The booklet, “The Story of a Grain,” which was published by the Tzafit Group on the occasion of its third anniversary, was devoted to the memory of Shamai, who fell in pursuit of terrorists in the Jordan Valley.