Sherf, Bruno (“Dov”)

Son of Pesach and Sally. He was born on 28.3.1931 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, and studied elementary school in Romania, where he attended the Bar Mitzvah in Transnistria and died from his father while he was still young. On his shoulder, Romania, where he was able to complete four years of high school for two years and then immigrated to Israel on his own, and immediately upon his arrival in Israel in 1951, he joined the IDF. He served in the Military Police and later completed a course in the Israel Air Force and was awarded the rank of First Sergeant. After his discharge from the regular army he went to study in an automotive mechanics course at the Ministry of Labor and began working as a mechanic at a military base. In the evenings he studied at the Technion in Haifa and completed a course in drafting and planning machines. After finishing, he completed a mechanical engineering course at the Technion and was hired as a technician at the Ministry of Defense. In September 1969 he was called up for active reserve duty. On 16 September 1969, he was killed by a shell while he was driving a half-track in the area of ​​the Suez Canal. He left a wife and a child. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. His friend and foreman wrote in Bruno in July 1971 that “his part was great and felt everywhere in the workplace.” When he arrived and joined a cohesive team, he immediately took over and took his place in it: Bruno showed a serious approach to work, access to people and their problems, “Despite his age, Bruno served as an advisor to any question of the proper procedure with friends, both happily and in distress, and in all matters of religion and tradition he was the supreme arbiter and authority in every question and problem.” The writer notes that the hardships of the war that he underwent as a boy left his mark on him, but as a good raw material, Bruno was attached to the first-born of the troubles and emerged more pure, more sensitive, and more dedicated. His friends, his ambitions – and even his hobby. “